Category: Children Publisher: Tina Field Howe
ISBN-10: 0976858509
Type: Fiction
Pages: 24
Copyright: 2004
ISBN-13: 9780976858508
One little she-snails discovers a big, wonderful world outside her patch of ivy.
The sun had settled behind the low hills. The birds, who had been merrily singing all day, were asleep in their birdhouses and treetop nests.
The crickets scritch-scritched secret (though very noisy) messages through the moonless dark.
Fireflies flashed, "Good evening!" to one another over the distance.
Excerpt
Snailsworth startled at the site and sound of Huey. Was she ever glad that she was not on the ground at that moment! If she had been able to sweat (and if she also had hands), she would have wiped her forehead! Instead, Snailsworth said, “Good evening, Your Wartiness.”
Edie Batstone's first book of colourful picture poems invites us to jump into a child's world of wonder and possibility, just as a child jumps into a puddle - knowing only that it seems like a good idea at the time! Join her on this journey of disco
