Giggle Bait! Snail & Worm All Day: Three Stories about Two Friends by Tina Kugler

WOW! Look at that cave.

So dark and spooky.

Snail has discovered what he takes to be a cave. It rises from the ground suddenly, a mound, big and brown, with a gaping black opening. No one replies to his yoo-hoos until....

... an imposing reptilian head peers out grumpily. It must be a ...dragon!

"Please don't eat me!" Snail cries.

But the "dragon" politely requests quiet so he can nap. Worm appears, and the jittery Snail tells him about the terrible dragon inside the cave.

"Are you talking about this turtle?" asks Worm, sensibly.

And when the sleepy turtle finally comes out of his shell and moves to a quieter locale, Snail "runs" for his life. Whew!

Now snail needs a nap inside his own shell!

Snail and Worm are back, with three more classic noodle tales, in the Geisel Award-winning Tina Kugler's third book about those unlikely free-range friends, Snail and Worm All Day: Three Stories About Two Friends (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019). In three easy-reading "stories about two friends," patient Worm again plays straight man to noodlehead Snail in stories which allow young readers to feel smarter than a snail and practice their reading skills as well.

Author-illustrator Tina Kugler again provides just right humor in her text and big comic illustrations as she did in her earlier books in this series--Snail and Worm: Three Stories About Two Friends and Snail and Worm Again: Three Stories About Two Friends--sweet and silly stories in the tradition of Arnold Lobel's classic Frog and Toad are Friends tales, about a pair of pals perfect for each other and perfect for beginning readers who will zip faster than a speeding snail through this book and its prequels.