Bumble and Snug and the Angry Pirates: Book 1

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Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing - I’M REALLY SORRY, WE DIDN’T REALISE THAT IT BELONGED TO ANYONE. PLEASE DON’T FEED US TO THE SHARKS.” Bumble and Snug are certain they can replace the treasure, and fix things to make everybody happy. But there’s another monstrous obstacle in store – and this one has TENTACLES. So, Bumble and Snug are two little creatures and I like to call these types of creatures bugbops, little monsters. And the thing I like about these is they can be as simple as you want to make them or as complex as you want to make them. Mark Bradley's fun series is perfect for readers just starting to enjoy stories independently, to encourage visual or reluctant readers and for sensitive children to share with their grown-ups.

This is a brain-popping idea it makes me laugh so much! The characters (bumble and snug) have so much differences but fit perfectly as a pair. They go... Bumble and Snug and the Excited Unicorn is a story about being too excited and how to listen, friendship and magic, and three new SUPERHEROES! A character is someone in a story - they can be real, or made up. They can be people, or animals, or anything else you can imagine! You don’t need to draw along with this part. I’m just gonna… I’m gonna draw a bugbop that reflects how I’m feeling today. So, today I’m feeling really excited to be speaking with you all, but I’m also feeling a little bit nervous because I’m not used to being in front of television cameras, being in lights and being interviewed about things, so I’m going to try think of how that feels inside of me, that emotion. So what I do with that sometimes is I close my eyes and think about it. Now, the excitement… There’s different types of excitement, like every emotion. It’s not like the excitement when you feel it’s coming up to your birthday or Christmas. Where it’s like a slow build, and it’s just like “aw what am I going to get? What am I going to get?” This one’s kind of like a fizzy, nervous excitement, so it’s sparkly and it’s just a bit fizzy and a bit floaty in my head. So I’m going to create a shape like that. And it’s also a bit, there’s a little bit of spikes at the end there because that’s feeling a little bit jittery with the excitement. So I’m going to put an excited face there. So, there we go. But like I say, I’m also feeling a little bit nervous about being in front of cameras, being in front of, in a different environment, so that nervousness, it feels here in my body. So it’s going to be a really small shape. So what I’m going to do is I’m going to create a little body like that and put some arms and legs on it. So I’ve got the start of the character there. Now I have a colour that I associate with excitement and I’ll always use which is really bright pink. I love… Oops… I love bright pinks for everything. But they might do terrible things to us, like making us walk the plank. Or feeding us to a shark, then feeding that shark to a whale, then feeding that whale to an even bigger whale!”I like using basic shapes to make characters. And what happens over time is you build up enough basic shapes in your head that you can create a whole library of different characters… and this is… some of the bugbops that I draw. And what happened… each of the ones I’ve drawn is… I like to base them around a feeling and over time have associated the basic shapes that I use with types of feelings. So a jaggedy one might be me feeling a little bit angry one morning or a round one might be me feeling mellow and I’m all nice and relaxed. So, over time if you keep drawing these little random shapes, you’ll eventually be able to build them into your own little library, so I’ll show you what I mean.

Now, you can never draw Bumble’s hat too, too big… and it’s as simple as that to draw Bumble. Like, it’s super, super easy and the best thing about Bumble is that she’s got shape changing abilities. So even if you go wrong and draw a shape like that… LoveReading4Kids exists because books change lives, and buying books through LoveReading4Kids means you get to change the lives of future generations, with 25% of the cover price donated to schools in need. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. What I’m gonna do is I’m gonna show you how to draw Bumble and Snug and show you how I draw a bugbop, and then show you maybe a few little tips on how to create your own easy ones. So we’ve got the start. We’ve got the basic colour. We’ve got a nice little shape there, but it’s still not feeling excited to me. So what I’m gonna do, and you don’t need to worry about all the computer stuff I’m doing at the moment, that’s just for my amusement. So I’m gonna give a little head there like that. So she’s got a bit of different colour and then I’m going to think about this nervousness again and nervousness I associate with the colour yellow and again everyone might have different colours that they think, some people when they’re angry they think of red or green, maybe like the Incredible Hulk or something like that… Over time you might think about different colours that you associate with them. It’s like, with anything, it’s just about practising. Um, what you do, so I’m going to put a little bit of yellow here on this bugbop and keep that those jagged lines. I’m gonna go add a little bit of orange as well there to reflect those. So we’re on our way, but it’s still feeling like it’s missing some stuff. So, excitement, it’s feeling jittery, it’s feeling like it feels like it could explode. So I’m thinking… Have you ever watched a fire at Bonfire Night or anything like that, and there’s the embers coming off it? So I’m thinking what I’ll do is I’ll give this little bugbop a trail. Because excitement, it’s floating through the air. It’s excited, but it is leaving a nice little trail of sparks and things like that behind it. But it’s still missing something, this one. So what I’m thinking is we will add like I say, excitement is sparkly and nice so I’m gonna add some stars into this one. And there we go. So it’s coming along. I’m gonna add a few of these stars outside it as well so it looks like it’s leaving a trail of them ‘cause it’s really excited and it wants to show the world how it is.That’s still what Bumble looks like, she’s just warped her body to be that size so that’s the thing, you can never go wrong with her. That’s one of the reasons why I like drawing her so much ‘cause you can never, ever, ever, ever go wrong. So next up we have got Snug. Bumble and Snug have to come up with a super action plan to stop Sparklehoof. And with a giant kitten on the loose and a jelly city, they will have to work FAST!

Janice: How did you make Bumble such a funny character? Can you give us any tips for writing funny stories? You can use characters you thought of earlier, or you can make a new one to go in your comic with them. Best friends Bumble and Snug are bugbops – little monsters filled with BIG feelings! Join them in this new, full-colour graphic novel, as they go on a thrilling, funny adventure with a VERY shy ghost and learn about the world outside and inside. Then I’m going to build a den, no, a fortress that’s a bajillion feet tall. Then I’m going to find a fox, an owl and a shark!”

I saw this book at school and my teacher said it was a great book. The front cover made me really want to read it. This book was really funny and I ke... Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments Bumble and Snug are going on a big adventure to … have a picnic! But when they accidentally get lost, they’re both cross – is their adventure ruined? Bumble is full of energy, always looking for adventure and getting into scrapes. Snug is a quieter and more sensible character, who would rather take things slowly. Think about how your characters might feel and how you might show this - remember everything you heard about drawing characters from Mark.