Slugs by David Greenberg was an all-time
childhood favorite of mine. It is a perfect mix of delightfully gross and disgustingly hilarious. In rhyming verse, Greenberg imagines more and more creative and horrible things people can do to the slimy slug while Victoria Chess's illustrations make you want to laugh and cringe at the same time. My favorite part of the book however, comes when the slugs take their revenge!
The basis for the 2007 film Meet the Robinsons, A Day With WilburRobinson by William Joyce was another childhood favorite of mine. A search for
Wilbur's grandfather's false teeth leads the reader through the strange and
fantastical world of the Robinson family. What I really enjoyed about the book
as a young reader was that most of the action and humor took place in the
illustrations. For example, the text merely mentions Cousin Pete walking the
cats, but the accompanying illustration enlightens careful readers to the fact
that the cats in question are in fact tigers. These delightful and often
humorous details kept me coming back to re-read the story again and again to
look for details I might have missed!
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