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Wiggle and Waggle

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Wiggle and Waggle live in a garden and work all day long making loops around the plants. They decided to sing to make their work easier because making tunnels in the ground was very hard work. One day Wiggle was digging away and forgot, as usual, to look where he was going and BUMP! He crashed into a rock. With his friend Waggle's help they worked and worked and worked and got that rock out of the way. The two of them had many adventures together. There was the picnic under the bucket on a rainy day (including mud pie), swimming in the mud puddle (SPLASH!), slipping and sliding through the tunnel to write their names and promising to do it all again next year!

"We wiggle and waggle, squiggle and squirm.

Digging in dirt is the life of a worm.

We dig and we sing all day long,

Our wiggle, waggly, gardening song."

This is a fun book for the beginning, but confident reader and will keep him smiling and singing along with Wiggle and Waggle, enjoying their fun adventures right along with them. This book has five chapters and could be a read aloud book in a classroom or homeschool setting. In the back of the book is a short discussion on how "worms help plants grow" and some fun worm facts. Now one worm fact is that singing did make things easier for Wiggle and Waggle!

Just read this book to my 3 year old son. He loves it and asked me to read it again and again. It is easy reading, love the illustrations and what a great way for kids to learn about what worms do.

My four year old grandson loves this book. It has become a "must read" every night. Not many books can hold their attention that long. We first found it at the local library and he cried when it had to be returned so it became a must for his home library. Great book.

We borrowed this book from the library, and now I'll have to buy it. My 4 1/2 year old and 7 year old love it! This is a fun story that teaches about what worms do in the garden, as well as how to be a helpful friend. It will be good to pair with this some Spring/Summer gardening activities.

I ordered this book for my nephew. He loves it! Still one of his favorite books. He plays a lot in the dirt, like most boys. Not always being real nice to the earthworms. Since he got this book he treats them much better. :) Plus he now has learned so much about how beneficial they are.

This 48-page book--sized for small hands-- contains five simple but fun stories about worm pals, Wiggle and Waggle. The stories, gently told and illustrated, deal with classic situation faced by toddlers (and, I imagine, toddler worms): Singing to make you work go faster (a variation on "whistle while you work"), the importance of teamwork (moving a big rock in the garden they tend), making the best of a bad situation (holding their picnic under a pail when the weather turns rainy), and a clebration of friendship (with a great surprise conclusion).

Mary Peterson's high/low tech illustrations (pencil and paper, but painedt via computer combine to give us the intinacy of the former, with the clarity of the latter. There's lotf of white space around text and picture, and the repetition of words reduce the cognitive load, and truly make this a fun read. Each of Caroline Arnold's stories has a little extra something including contrasts {"Wiggle sang the high notes. Wiggle sanh the high notes," andlots ofadjectives"as in the folllowing: Waggle sang the Low notes, and lots of adectivess as on the following:("They dug long tunneks, short tunnels, fat tunnels, and thin tunnels.")

Ea worm is loveable on his/her own terms, but these two adorable worms (and how often can one say that?) but Arnold and Peterson show how two are often better than one. Wiggle and Waggle' teamwork, shared laughter, and acceptance of the unexpected provide a safe environment in which a frindship can flourish, as surely as worms help sustain and nurture garden plants. With its soft colors this is a soothing and softly humous books for infants and toddlers ready to face the challenges of social life. The last page has two interesting sections: "How Do Worms Help Plants Grow?" and "Fun Worm Facts" that nicely complement the stories. Highly recommended.

We just received "Wiggle and Waggle" and have already read it five times in one morning! My preschooler loves all five stories, but he especially enjoys "A Big Rock," "A Day Off," and "A Good Job." The writing is wonderful (we especially love the alliteration) and the illustrations are just fantastic. Mary Peterson does a phenomenal job of creating worms with personality. My son laughs each time he sees Waggle with his glasses slightly knocked off his head from using all his wormly-might to push a rock. It's a delightful book and we're now ordering four more as gifts for my son's friends, who are also beginning readers. I highly recommend this book.