Wiggle and Waggle

We just received "Wiggle and Waggle" and have already read it five times in one morning! My preschooler loves all five stories, but he especially enjoys "A Big Rock," "A Day Off," and "A Good Job." The writing is wonderful (we especially love the alliteration) and the illustrations are just fantastic. Mary Peterson does a phenomenal job of creating worms with personality. My son laughs each time he sees Waggle with his glasses slightly knocked off his head from using all his wormly-might to push a rock. It's a delightful book and we're now ordering four more as gifts for my son's friends, who are also beginning readers. I highly recommend this book.

Wiggle and Waggle live in a garden and work all day long making loops around the plants. They decided to sing to make their work easier because making tunnels in the ground was very hard work. One day Wiggle was digging away and forgot, as usual, to look where he was going and BUMP! He crashed into a rock. With his friend Waggle's help they worked and worked and worked and got that rock out of the way. The two of them had many adventures together. There was the picnic under the bucket on a rainy day (including mud pie), swimming in the mud puddle (SPLASH!), slipping and sliding through the tunnel to write their names and promising to do it all again next year! "We wiggle and waggle, squiggle and squirm. Digging in dirt is the life of a worm. We dig and we sing all day long, Our wiggle, waggly, gardening song." This is a fun book for the beginning, but confident reader and will keep him smiling and singing along with Wiggle and Waggle, enjoying their fun adventures right along with them. This book has five chapters and could be a read aloud book in a classroom or homeschool setting. In the back of the book is a short discussion on how "worms help plants grow" and some fun worm facts. Now one worm fact is that singing did make things easier for Wiggle and Waggle!