Wiggle and Waggle
$18.11
- Paperback
48 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2014
Summary
Follow Wiggle and Waggle, two wormy best friends, through five squirmy chapters for beginning readers! These pals work hard in the garden, digging tunnels to keep the soil healthy and give the vegetables room to grow. It’s a tough job, but everything is easier with a good song-and a good friend. Of course, all work and no play makes for a dull worm. Wiggle and Waggle love to swim and make mud pies for picnic fun!Young worm fans will dig the simple science facts included at the end of this charming book.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781580893077 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1580893074 |
| Author: | Caroline Arnold, Mary Peterson |
| Publisher: | Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 48 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2014 |
| Weight: | 128g |
| Dimensions: | 222mm x 160mm x 4mm |
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Critics Review
The eponymous heroes of this early reader are two genial, googly-eyed earthworms who are also best friends. In five short chapters, Wiggle and Waggle (the latter, distinguished by a pair of glasses) learn that singing makes a job go faster; a difficult task—moving a big rock out of a tunnel—is made easier when individuals work together; and a rainy day needn’t be a spoiler if you have an upbeat outlook. Arnold’s (Super Swimmers) writing has an easygoing cadence and just the right amount of repetition (“They dug long tunnels, short tunnels, fat tunnels, and thin tunnels”), although her wrap-ups for each story can be fairly anticlimactic (after a day of singing and digging tunnels, Waggle muses, “We are a good team…. Let’s dig again tomorrow”). Peterson (No Time to Nap!) is all-around terrific, tightly cropping her environments to keep the action focused on her characters and conveying a sense of contrasting scale (an unharvested carrot dwarfs the two worms). As for the two leads themselves, they’re spunky, comically gangly and just vulnerable enough to be adorable. For youngsters smitten by this duo, a list of facts about worms and how they contribute to a healthy garden concludes this cheery collection.
—Publishers Weekly
About The Author
Caroline Arnold
Caroline Arnold is the award-winning author of more than one hundred and forty books for children, including WIGGLE AND WAGGLE, A WARMER WORLD, and TOO HOT? TOO COLD?- KEEPING BODY TEMPERATURE JUST RIGHT. She lives in Los Angles, California.
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