Wiggling Worms at Work

by Wendy Pfeffer

Book Overview

Read and find out about worms and the important work they do in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.

Crawling through the dirt, worms are hard at work. Worms help the fruit and vegetables we eat by loosening the soil and feeding the plants. Read and find out about these wiggling wonders!

This clear and appealing science book for early elementary age kids, both at home and in the classroom, lets readers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0064451992
• ISBN13: 9780064451994
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 9.8" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Great Introduction for Kids

Children will learn that worms have value beyond fishing and food for birds with Wiggling Worms at Work. The illustration is beautiful but not quite as engaging for younger children as other books in the Let's Read and Find Out Science series. It begins by piquing a child's interest in what is going on underground all the time. The images do open a child's imagination as to what goes on beneath the surface of the ground. Vocabulary children will learn include: 1. gizzard 2. crop 3. castings 4. segment 5. fungi 6. midden 7. burrow While done tastefully, the page that focuses on the reproduction cycle of a worm may be a bit too much for the 3 to 6 year old range (and I realize that this book is geared more for ages 5 to 9) so there is some overlap and a challenge in providing enough details for an older child's understanding. Page 22 states: "In spring, before the weather warms, worms wiggle to the surface to mate. Worms are different from most other animals. Each worm is both male and female. but each one still needs a mate. After mating each worm crawls back into its burrow." The following pages continue with a detailed and very informative description of the cocoon process and the development of the wormlets. For budding scientists there are a few "experiment" ideas in the rear of the book.

Earthworms-Workers

Another great picture book for younger children to understand the soil beneath the grass line, that they cannot see. The activity that takes place there is amazing to them.

Excellent book and series

As a mother, teacher, and naturalist, I have been very impressed with this book (as well as the other Let's-Read-and-Find-Out series). It is incredible how so much information is packed into a book for kids and is also full of colorful artwork engaging to the eye. This book about worms covers how worms help the earth, how they eat, make waste, reproduce (tastefully written of course), where they go in the winter, why you find them out when it's raining, how they sense things around them, how their bodies are designed to help them move, all the while explaining things with proper terms, yet simple to understand. This book, as well as the others in the series, has an activity or two in the back of the book for hands-on learning. Excellent resource for any nature/science library.