Holey Moley
With Audio Recording
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Get to know Mole, the underground protector of the garden, in this fact-filled natural history adventure with vibrant collage artwork from the Caldecott Honor–winning illustrator of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
Some might think that Mole is a garden pest, but the truth is, he is a pest-preventer! Mole keeps worms and caterpillars and other crawly bugs from munching up all the growing veggie plants. And so at harvest time, there is a bounty of yummy goodies for the gardeners to enjoy—and Mole is chubby from all the eating he has done and ready to get cozy in his burrow for winter.
Complete with a beautiful glossary identifying all of the different worms, caterpillars, moths, and butterflies included in the illustrations, this colorful gem from Caldecott Honoree Lois Ehlert is sure to delight nature lovers of all ages.
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Ehlert (Scraps) gives readers a mole's-eye-view of the subterranean life in this multilayered exploration of the natural world. The cheeky narrator a gray cut-paper mole with giant purple claws and a furry outline created with pinking shears makes its entrance via die-cut circles in the book's cover and first page ("See this hole? I dug it. I'm a mole"). From there, it digs through an elaborate series of tunnels, moving from the lawn to a neatly planted vegetable garden; along the way, the mole passes numerous brightly colored worms squiggling around in the mottled dirt, but seeks out more delectable fare ("Eating earthworms is OK, but not every day"). Ehlert's cut-paper critters and objects come together in a harmonious symphony of textures, shapes, and rich colors (the mole tunnels are a vibrant red, contrasting starkly with the dark, fibrous paper used for the dirt), and the mole's narration reads like a series of excited, extemporaneous rhymes. End pages that identify and briefly discuss various garden-variety bugs conclude this energetic book on an educational note. Ages 4 8.
