today's book is:
Title: Yucky Worms: Read and Wonder
Author: Vivian French
Illustrator: Jessica Ahlberg
Publisher: Candlewick
Year: 2012
Word Count:749+ (word count not including the worm commentary in speech bubbles, sidebars with information, and back material on how to be a wormologist)
Top 10 Element: dialogue
Summary: Instead of this book just listing facts and pictures, the information is presented as a story. It begins One day when I was in Grandma's garden, Grandma dug up a slimy, slithery, wiggly worm. "Yuck," I said. "Throw it away!" But, of course, his grandmother doesn't. Through dialogue between the two, children learn how to tell which end is which on a worm, what worms eat, etc.
Sound boring? Not really, and children will especially love all the information about casts. Do you know what casts are? Casts are
WORM POOP!
And seriously, what kid doesn't get the laughs and giggles when it comes to poop. Children also learn the dangers of being a worm, how to trick worms into coming out of the soil, and lots of cool facts. Did you know that worms have bristles in their muscles. The bristles help them move. There are also looks of cool comments from the worms in speech bubbles within the illustrations and back material on being a "wormologist".
I know boys will love this book. Girls? I don't know. I know I would have enjoyed it as a child. Would you like it? Find out for yourself. I found a video (by mrssworley's channel on YouTube) of someone reading it.
Here's today's link to read other participants' day 11 picture book reviews:
http://christiewrightwild.blogspot.de/2015/02/day-12-looking-at-lincoln-by-maira.html
6 comments:
Sounds like an engaging way to introduce real information about this topic to younger readers. Plus, who doesn't like learning new ways to talk about poop?
I want to read all the "worm commentary in speech bubbles."
I do love when non-fiction information is told through a story. And yes, as a teacher, I can tell you that girls also LOVE giggling about poop and yucky thing!
I watched the video. Great book, the author did a good job.
Sounds like my kind of book! I agree, the dialogue seems to be a key element here, and I'm finding that it serves non-fiction quite well!
Thanks for the heads up on this one, Linda.
Now this is a book I just have to get, Linda...you are right about the 'poop' word...my grandson is 6 and he thinks it is the cat's meow! He loved all of Artie Bennett's books with Poop, and Butts, and Belches, Burps and Farts, Oh My. ;)
I love this book and it reminds me of the rhyming pb I wrote, Boy to Bug. I planned on having back matter to explain more about the different bugs...so I will have to study this book and see how they did it. ;)
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