Oxford Children's swoops for picture book trilogy about ecosystems from Long

Long said “I knew I wanted to make a book about bugs, and at first I just thought it would be super fun to show them getting squished and killed in all sorts of ways. And it was. But the more time I spent with the characters the more I wanted to show how important the lives of bugs are despite how small and fragile they seem. The result is a book that I feel really celebrates bugs and will hopefully make the reader tread a little more carefully in the great outdoors.” 

Haworth added: “Oxford Children’s Books is committed to publishing titles that combine learning and reading for pleasure, and Matty Long’s brilliant Who Ate All The Bugs is a stunning example of that fact that learning can be very silly indeed. It’s a picture book that is a number of things, all of them infinitely appealing to young readers. It’s a whodunnit, it’s a screwball comedy, it’s a comic, and it’s a narrative non-fiction title about how life forms inevitably find a way to devour each other. Not many authors and illustrators could weave together so many threads so seamlessly, but Matty does it with finesse. Children (and their parents) will laugh as they learn, and you can’t ask for much better than that.”