Customer Reviews

Rainy Day Slug

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Rainy Day Slug is a whimsical and creative picture book designed perfectly for the preschool-aged child. While at the same time your chld is becoming captivated by a slugs meandering journey throughout a little boy's house, any parent reading the story to their child will become equally intrigued. The colorful illustrations, filled with humorous detail, literally bring the text to life. This book is a must for every child's bookshelf.

It's so nice to find a picture book that's enjoyable for parents to read, and that doesn't have too many words so that young kids can read it too. I love the way the words are positioned so that they sort of move across the page in a slug-like way. The art is nice and bright and the slug is cute, friendly, and loaded with personality. The slug on the cover really caught my attention. Very nice!

After finding a slug in the wet grass of our backyard, naming it, and claiming it as her latest pet, my four-year-old scampered to her bookshelf to pull out "Rainy Day Slug." While some of the rhyming is a bit forced, the book's illustrations are bright and clever, with all sorts of Northwest motifs, and the simple action is perfect for piquing the interest and curiosity of youngsters.

My daughter wanted to know more about the slime trail slugs create, what they eat, where they live, and if they really want to come indoors. For her, the simplicity of the book was an ideal springboard for more learning about this critter.

I wanted to thank the author and illustrator for such a wonderful book! My son is 2 1/2 and we are avid readers with him. We visit the library often, which is where we found "Rainy Day Slug". I almost did not check it out as my son is usually more interested in trains and trucks than nature and animals, but the illustrations were so colorful, I just grabbed it on a whim. Let me tell you, we have read this book to him two to three times a day for the last two weeks. He now has it memorized and often repeats portions of it while playing with his toys! So, so cute and wonderful! I just ordered it for him for Christmas so that we can quit renewing the library's edition over and over and over and....

My boys and I love this book. I'm going to purchase the hardcover edition for them and my nephews/niece.

Colorful engaging art, fun visual perspectives, authentic northwest illustrations and main character is what gives this book the most charm. The story is light, playful and adventurous.

This is one we have read and checked out from the library many times. Luckily they do not clammer for it, rather nicely they welcome its addition to the library pile.

I think an appropriate age range is one to four or to five, depending on the child. This is one of many books that I'll recall their childhood with.

Thank you Mary and Lorie!

The kids both seem to enjoy the silly (albeit forced, as another reviewer noted) choice of words. The book is repetitive enough that it's especially appealing to my one year old, while the pictures are detailed to capture my three year old's interest.

The illustrations really make this book come to life!

Unfortunately, I can't say the same for the text. It's an attempt at rhyming onomatopoeia as the slug moves through different parts of his garden environment, and it quickly grows old. Also, the word choices are forced and were clearly invented to fit each rhyme, even if they didn't make sense. "Scuddle, scuddle, scuddle in a deep rain puddle" is fine, but "Scrape... down the long, pink drape" and "Scrug... over the soft, blue rug" seem a little desperate, and "Sable... under a small, oak table" is downright nonsensical.

There's no real story here, either. The slug goes crawling around in the yard, makes his way into the house, and crawls around in there too, until he startles a sleeping child and flees back outdoors.

There are much better rainy day books, and much better garden books, too. Try "Red Rubber Boot Day" by Mary Lyn Ray for rainy days, and "Five Green and Speckled Frogs" (Kelly), "Gotta Go! Gotta Go!" (Swope) or "Miss Spider's Tea Party" (Kirk) for better choices on the critters that live in the garden.