Worm Makes a Sandwich
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A sweetly humorous picture book about composting, told from the point of view of a worm.
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
Meet Worm. He might be little. He might have no hands. But Worm would love to make a sandwich, just for you!
To get started he'll need just one thing: garbage! Delicious, delectable garbage like apple cores and mushy grapes, broccoli bottoms and carrot tops, sad celery, and drippy cucumbers. Worm and his friends eat the garbage. And then they do what everyone does after they eat garbage. They poop! The poop goes in the compost and the compost goes in your garden, which is where the vegetables for your sandwich come from!
Simple, right? Worm thought you'd agree. He might just need a bit of assistance along the way . . .
This hilarious, engaging picture book is the perfect introduction to the process of composting from start to finish, told from the perspective of one little worm who is very eager to help.
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The slithery pink narrator of this funny, slyly instructive gardening tale by Farley (Dozens of Doughnuts) gets straight to the point: "I'd like to make you a sandwich, all by myself." In truth, Worm doesn't assemble a sandwich ("I know what you're thinking! You're just a worm! Worms are so little! Worms don't have hands") so much as foreground its role in enriching the soil for growing a plump, sandwich-worthy tomato. As Worm provides running commentary ("The dirt is not for your sandwich. The dirt is for a wee little seed"), a series of lush, lightly annotated mixed-media illustrations depict a child with auburn pigtails and pale skin assembling a compost pile and cultivating a garden, and a number of other creatures playing their own roles. When the tomato finally ripens, and the child savors it al fresco between bread slices, Worm takes full credit: "I knew I could do it! I knew it all along." But who can blame Worm? Small actions, taken by even the smallest among us, can add up to delicious results. Back matter provides additional composting information. Ages 3–7.
