Recently, my friend from Momo Celebrating Time to Read wrote about Maybelle in the Soup which was out on display in the library because we had a display of books featuring soup. Maybelle is a cockroach and there are four books about her by Katie Speck. Yesterday she brought it back and was saying how much she enjoyed it so together we decided on a cockroach display to start off the term in the hope that these books get borrowed again.
I have written about this day before here, but Maggie Hutchings has added to her cockroach series with Your Holiday was the Best! which is also told from the cockroach's point of view and since then we have added a new title called Craft Roach by Rachel Burke. Of course we'll get out the other favourites like Crickwing by Janell Cannon, The Cockroach by Elise Gravel and The Greatest Show on Earth by Mini Grey.
Generally feared as pests, scientists and enthusiasts champion cockroaches for acting as Earth’s sanitation workers—recycling decaying organic matter and returning vital nutrients to the soil and it is important children know this rather than just screaming when they see one. My students are very enamoured of dung beetles and probably that's because they have never seen one, whereas cockroaches are very much part of living in Sydney.
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