Snail and Worm All Day: Three Stories About Two Friends

by Tina Kügler, Tina Kügler (Illustrator)

Overview

"All day, every day, is a good time for reading about Snail and Worm. Run (faster than Snail ever could) to get a copy of this winning early reader." —Kirkus (starred review)

Snail and Worm go on three silly adventures in this early reader chock full of heartfelt humor and irresistible illustrations. By Geisel Honor winner Tina Kügler.

Snail and Worm are back at it and sure to have readers giggling from dawn ’til dusk (wait—do snails and worms sleep?) in Snail and Worm All Day, complete with heartfelt humor and Tina Kügler’s irresistible illustrations.

Brimming with laugh-out-loud jokes, these three new stories are sweet celebrations of cooperation and discovery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780358561873
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	07/04/2023
Series:	Snail and Worm Series
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	633,479
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Author-illustrator Tina Kügler lives in the Los Angeles area with her artist husband and three sons. When she is not making picture books, she can be found trying to befriend snails and worms in her backyard.
www.tinakugler.squarespace.com
Twitter: @tinatheatre
Instagram: @kuglertina

Author-illustrator Tina Kügler lives in the Los Angeles area with her artist husband and three sons. When she is not making picture books, she can be found trying to befriend snails and worms in her backyard.
www.tinakugler.squarespace.com
Twitter: @tinatheatre
Instagram: @kuglertina

Editorial Reviews

"All day, every day, is a good time for reading about Snail and Worm....Run (faster than Snail ever could) to get a copy of this winning early reader." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"[N]ew readers should feel supported in their efforts while being continually entertained." — The Horn Book

"Kügler’s clever, off-kilter stories are enhanced by colorful, expressive cartoon illustrations that give strong textual support....This latest Snail and Worm book is a strong addition to all early reader collections and a surefire hit with children and their adults." — Booklist

"The friendly and cheerful cartoon illustrations effectively enhance the story’s sweet humor." — School Library Journal

From the Publisher

09/20/2019

K-Gr 2- The silly pair of friends returns in this third installment. In the "Best Day Ever," Snail manages to make lemonade out of lemons by appreciating the wonderful things happening to those around him even though his day hasn't gone so well. What's more, Snail's day starts looking up as he remembers that his shoes are not missing—in fact, he doesn't wear shoes! In "The Spooky Cave," Snail is convinced that a friendly turtle is a terrible dragon in a cave, and is relieved when he successfully "runs" away. (In fact, the turtle got up and left). In "A Bedtime Story," Snail cannot fall asleep, so his friend Worm tries to tell him a story, which really turns out to be a sweet conversation about their friendship. As with its predecessors, the text is all dialogue-based, and is color-coded by speaker with the exception of text on darker illustrations, which is white for legibility. VERDICT The friendly and cheerful cartoon illustrations effectively enhance the story's sweet humor. Recommended wherever the other books are popular.-Jessica Marie, Salem Public Library, OR

School Library Journal

★ 2019-07-14
All day, every day, is a good time for reading about Snail and Worm.

Geisel honoree Kügler returns with her third hilarious early reader in this series about odd-couple pals Snail and Worm. Three stories, "Best Day Ever," "The Spooky Cave," and "A Bedtime Story," make up the book and deliver laugh-out-loud moments courtesy of affable, daffy Snail's antics. Worm is a loyal and supportive friend who never condescends to Snail despite misunderstandings and blunders, instead appreciating Snail's generous, guileless, big heart. And what's not to appreciate? When Snail declares it's the "best day ever," it's on a day of small personal disasters that are overshadowed by others' good fortune. When Snail mistakes a turtle in its shell for a spooky cave with a dragon inside, their first thought is to save the turtle Worm mentions. And when Worm offers to tell a bedtime story about Snail, Snail frets about being lonely without Worm in the story, too. Expressive watercolor-and-ink illustrations make particularly great use of Snail's eyestalks and Worm's coiling body to ratchet up the humor and heart of every single scene. "I like everything you do," the friends affirm to each other at book's end, a sentiment readers will share about Kügler's work.

Run (faster than Snail ever could) to get a copy of this winning early reader. (Early reader. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews