Bug City Re-Release

Dahlov Ipcar’s 1975 classic, Bug City, is set to be re-released on July 23, 2019 through North Atlantic Books. Follow a day in the life of a Bug City family, with the imaginative illustrations of real insects by American artist Dahlov Ipcar. Mama is a ladybug and Papa is a daddy longlegs. Their busy lives, augmented by Ipcar’s flamboyant, colorful illustrations create a charming story for readers to enjoy and learn how to identify a wide variety of bugs.

“In both my painting and my writing, I create worlds of the imagination. I transform ordinary reality into a reality that has special meaning to me. I hope it will also have special meaning to others,” said Dahlov Ipcar - who used her parent’s home at 276 Hicks Street in Brooklyn as the inspiration for the bug family’s house in the story.

Thank you, Rachel and Rachel Walls Fine Art for making this happen.

The new edition of Bug City includes endpapers – which previous editions did not. The endpapers are a set of 1967 Dahlov Ipcar watercolor paintings “Moths and Falling Leaves” and “Leaves and Wings.”