The Slug
(Disgusting Critters)

Author

Elise Gravel

Publication Date

August 05, 2014

Genre / Grade Band

Non-fiction / 2^nd − 3^rd

Language

English

Paperback

Hardcover

Only 3 copies currently available

Description

One in a series of humorous books about disgusting creatures, The Slug is a look at the land slug.

It covers such topics as the slug's two pairs of tentacles, one pair for seeing, one pair for smelling (it can see you're a kid and smell like broccoli), its breathing hole (on the side of its head!), and its pretty gross mucous covering (in order to find a partner, the slug can follow another slug's mucous trail. True love!).

Although silly and off-the-wall, The Slug contains factual information that will both amuse and teach at the same time.

Publication date

August 05, 2014

Genre

Non-fiction

ISBN-13

9781770496552

Lexile Measure

670

Guided Reading Level

Publisher

Tundra Books (NY)

Series

Disgusting Critters

BISAC categories

School Library Journal

Gr 2-4--These easy-to-read titles aim to amuse and inform in tandem. A cartoon rat or slug provides silly commentary to accompany an array of factoids about its respective subjects' physical characteristics and life style. (While the narrator explains that rats are enamored of human foodstuffs and garbage, this protagonist requests "more delicious electrical wire in tomato sauce.") Rat reproduction is mentioned nowhere, and as for slugs, well, the information is ambiguous. Looking "to find a partner and have babies," this slug hero/heroine (being both) follows another slug's mucus trail and then "lays its eggs." The book fails to discuss contact between the slugs, which will surely result in many questions from young readers. Still, gently amusing and somewhat informative, these cartoon books will find a home in many a classroom library and will meet the basic needs for those children who dread nonfiction book reports.--Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY

Elise Gravel

Elise Gravel is an award-winning author/illustrator from Quebec. She was the winner of the 2013 Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration in French, and is well-known in Quebec for her original, wacky picture books. She has published a number of books with US publisher Blue Apple and is currently working on a graphic novel for Roaring Brook Press. Having completed her studies in graphic design, Elise found herself quickly swept up into the glamorous world of illustration. Her old design habits drive her to work a little text here and there into her drawings and she loves to handle the design of her assignments from start to finish. She is inspired by social causes and is likes projects that can handle a good dose of eccentricity.

Gryphon Award

Honor Book 2015 - 2015

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