After being called Just a Worm by two children, Worm embarks on a journey around the garden to prove them wrong.
Includes a quilling craft for young readers, facts about earthworms, a glossary, and a special message to readers from Worm..
Just a Worm is a great read-aloud for family sharing and is a terrific choice for classrooms where the concepts of nature and the natural world are introduced, as well as for teaching social skills such as collaboration and empathy.
Using the ancient craft of quilling, Marie Boyd meticulously created each illustration out of strips of colored paper that she shaped, layered, and glued to produce a lush three-dimensional world.
Just a Worm celebrates everyone\'s individuality and highlights the importance of interdependence--how it\'s necessary for a stable, collaborative, and healthy environment. and what\'s so bad about that! This STEAM-themed picture book explores the many wonderful and unique ways in which Worm and friends contribute to the garden and work together to make it grow. . .
But what can Worm do? What makes Worm special? Maybe Worm is Just a Worm after all .
Butterfly seems to have all kinds of important qualities--as do Snail, Dragonfly, Ladybug, and Spider.
Worm is special! Right? Worm sets out across the garden to prove it, interviewing one garden inhabitant after another.
Worm isn\'t Just a worm, no matter what anyone says.
Debut author-illustrator Marie Boyd seamlessly incorporates concepts of nature, natural selection, habitats, and interdependence in this picture book beautifully illustrated with a cut-paper technique called quilling.
After being called Just a Worm by two children, Worm embarks on a journey around the garden to prove them wrong
