"Brilliant illustrations and a short text invite an unnamed sleeping, pajama-clad child into a garden teeming with wildlife. The boy gradually shrinks until he is so small he experiences things as a snail would. The incredibly detailed drawings and the idea of shrinking to enter another world should capture children's imaginations."--School Library Journal.
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A captivating story about a boy who shrinks to the size of a snail and experiences the world from that perspective. Ages 3-8.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent factual and imaginative book for younger children with beautiful illustrations,
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This review is from: The Snail's Spell (Picture Puffins) (Paperback)
I found this book to be extremely helpful in teaching my 4yr old daughter about snails and how they live while also allowing her to see beautiful illustrations and use a bit of her imagination as well; so the book hit three important characteristics that are needed for a child's storybook.
It tells of a child's imaginative journey through his/her garden while watching a snail; the child imagines to become a snail and do what the snail does; the text explains what the snail does and the child repeats it. It was nice to see a childrens book that had beautiful illustrations as opposed to illustrations that use unrealistic and bug-eyed characters as so many do today. My daughter enjoys this and it has become one of her favorite books to have read to her at bedtime or quiet time. Very relaxing as well.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
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I read good reviews of this book online so I ordered it. We are naturalists and it sounded like the perfect book to encourage interest in nature of a preschooler. The illustrations were very nice, but I was not impressed with the story line. I found it boring and not very original. I sent the book back to Amazon.
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First Sentence:
Imagine you are soft and have no bones inside you. Read the first page New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Imagine you are soft and have no bones inside you. Read the first page New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Hands-On Phonics Activities for Elementary Children by Karen Meyers Stangl on page 246
- The Big Book of Picture-Book Authors & Illustrators: Grades K-3 by James Preller on page 108
- Fun Phonics Manipulatives (Grades K-1) by Michelle Hancock on page 7
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