They're Not Just For Fish Bait Anymore! I Can Only Draw Worms by Will Mabbitt

What do you do when you want to make a picture book but you're not that good at drawing pictures?

THIS BOOK IS ABOUT WORMS (I CAN ONLY DRAW WORMS)

Here's ONE worm.

But when our artist draws TWO worms, it's hard to tell Worm One from Worm Two.

So he gives Worm TWO glasses. Who knew he could draw glasses?

Now what to do? Worm THREE looks just like Worm ONE!

Hey, WAIT! How about making Worm THREE yellow! Our novice artist is on a roll!

But worms are hard to control (like herding cats). Worm FOUR tries to take over the action, and Worm FIVE is looking a little under the weather.

And Worm SIX insists that he must ride on a flying unicorn.

I CAN'T DRAW FLYING UNICORNS!

But where there's a Will (Mabbitt), there's a way, in Mabbitt's just published I Can Only Draw Worms (Penguin/Random House, 2019), a counting book that gets the counting lesson done with such glorious and resourceful silliness that preschoolers will be reaching for their crayons and creating their very own worm counting books. Mabbitt manages to get plenty of attention with changes in page color (pink worms look especially lovely against a black background), while kids will get a giggle at how the artist creatively solves his unicorn block and learn to count with this new numbers book which is not at all creepy-crawly.