Slugs [Paperback]

David T. Greenberg (Author), Victoria Chess (Illustrator)

Book Description

Grade Level: P and up

Suggests many unpleasant things that can be done with and to slugs and warns that even the lowly slug may have its revenge.

Product Details

• Paperback: 31 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1st edition (May 30, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316326593
• ISBN-13: 978-0316326599
• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 0.1 x 8.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #654,423 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why, there are Slugs that know karate!, May 10, 2001

By 

S. Gustafson "Holy Roman Emperor" (New Albany, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Slugs (Paperback)

Go ahead. Be a bad influence. Give this book to a child.

In a day when children's literature seems full of tiresome passivism, and as full of sermons as any Victorian tract, it's a fine and excellent thing to see a children's book that talks about what they want to hear. Like putting slugs in a blender. Or gluing them to your sister. If this seems lacking in Moral Instruction, take note that those who mistreated slugs get their comeuppance by the book's end.

I got this book for my nieces, and it soon became one of their favourites. And let's face it, this is a lot healthier for them to furnish their minds with than -Bambi-.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All time family classic, December 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Slugs (Paperback)

This book is highly humerous to those children who are old enough or have such a dispostion to understand it's humor. This includes the overwhelming majority of the children I've read it to. I've read this book to so many children in my extended family that I'm now ordering my fourth copy. All the others were read to tatters. To the minority of usually younger children who do not understand it, a little explanation is all that is necessary; People aren't supposed to do what it talks about in the book - it's only supposed to make you laugh when you think about what the book is saying. This aids in their enjoyment of not only this book, but much of the humor they'll encounter later in their lives.

A must have for any well rounded child. A true classic, and always in great demand with kids.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Book I Often Give As a Gift!, November 23, 1998

By 

Antoinette Walder (Dayton OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Slugs (Paperback)

Anyone who doesn't take life too seriously can benefit from reading SLUGS. I often give this book as a gift to both children and adults. And the stuffed slug that accompanies the book is an able promoter for this oft-maligned creature.