Customer Reviews

Slugs

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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-.

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.

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.

Slugs is a book that entertains children of all ages, including those adults who are still kids at heart. It offers an amusing text and hilarious pictures of the gooey little creatures in all sorts of situations. Not only is it a great book to own, but it is also a great gift for anyone who has a good sense of humor.

I remember this book at my elementary school library. I'd ALWAYS look at it! It's unthinkable notions are so funny! Slugs are totally pointless. And anyone who's normal would probably agree. This book is extremely creative. You'd have to have a big imagination to think of slurpying slugs with straws or slugs in your pasta. I love the fun cartoonish pictures. Very easy to read for kid needing the practise. I believe this book would help children want to read more. Hey! Reading isn't boring it can be silly and fun! I can just imagin little boys loving this. I think it's idiotic how some people think this book is horrible. Come on! Slugs aren't creatures with feelings or brains and I doubt very much that any little kid would ever do anything that's in this book. This book inspires creativity! I would tell anyone to read it!

this is a hilarious and silly book about slugs,great for any ages.I gave it to a 49 yr old who dislikes slugs but laughed all the way thru the book.

My 6-year-old daughter just adores this book. We've only had it one day, and I've already read it four times. But I honestly wouldn't mind reading it again. This is really a great children's book, and I am so glad that it is still in print. I would strongly recommend it for any child's home library. It gives children an opportunity to be silly. . . .

I especily like this part:Then they'll put you back together so your navel's in your nose, so your feet come out your ears,so your eyes are on your toes. Your's Truly, Sasha Scott Age nine and a half

Oh boy oh boy oh boy. You're not going to find anything like THIS on the market again anytime soon. The incomparable pairing of author David Greenberg and Victoria Chess has yielded a book of hitherto unavailable grossness. Allow me to say here and now that kids have absolutely no problems with this book. It's the adults that peruse it in bookstores or stumble across it in school libraries that find themselves completely disgusted with it. And how couldn't they? Slugs in ears, slugs between toes. The whole book is about the wanton abuse of some very large slugs, ending with a twisted sluggish revenge. The revenge at the end was always my sticking point with the book. I just couldn't look on it with anything but horror. But you know what? That's okay. This book wasn't written for me, and it wasn't written for you, and it wasn't written for someone's uptight Aunt Hilde living in Battery Park. This book was written for the children who like their books a little risqué and a little gross. And to this end it succeeds like nothing else in the world. It's not fine literature, no. But it's funny and weird. Seeing that it does everything it sets out to (and more) I hereby christian this book "Successful" and grant it full accommodations. Your little ones will absolutely adore it BECAUSE it gives them nightmares. And as I've said before, there's nothing else like it anywhere.

I have to respectfully disagree with the people who think that this book is not good for young children. I am a first grade teacher and I have read this book to the children in my classes year after year, and they love it. What one needs to do is use the book correctly. Like J.K. Rowling says, "...children are not given enough credit for what they can understand and talk about..." You just have to make a point to discuss the book with the child or children you are reading it to. Discuss the book with them before you read it, while you read it, and after you read it. This book is a great teaching tool for having a discussion on how to treat, and how not to treat animals. And, most important of all, since they kids love the book because it is gross and funny, they want are inpsired to read it on their own. So, as long as the children are properly guided, if this book helps the children to be inspired read, well then, to me it's a great book!