Slug: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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Light up your mug with “Slug in Love,” a fetching new book in rhyme sure to grant all a fun time. Kids will sprout grins reading this story, its narrative complimented by Nadia Shireen’s colorful, uncluttered illustrations. Her written work includes children’s stories and poems, clever advertising copy and lots of other stuff besides. Her illustrative work is a smorgasboard of giant, hand-printed poems, mind-bogglingly detailed gouache illustrations and a cacophony of quirky prints and etchings.

As a teacher, parent, and lover of children's literature, I am thrilled to recommend Slug in Love by Rachel Bright. This adorable picture book is a heartwarming tale of friendship, courage, and self-acceptance that will captivate young readers. Slugs have a notorious reputation as plant pests but many species have more varied ecological roles. The British and Irish slug fauna has changed rapidly over recent years as exotic species join our native wildlife. While researching for Slugs of Britain and Ireland the authors set out to find all 36 know UK species, and were surprised to come across several they didn't recognise. Although slug species can vary enormously in appearance, and several are difficult to identify, further work, including DNA analysis, confirmed that they were distinct species. Making slime would be the perfect activity after reading this cute rhyming story about finding true love in unexpected places. Doug the slug needs a hug. Will he ever get one? Will he find love? He meets worms, snails, caterpillars and spiders. Don't give up, Doug! The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for books. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.Field guides used to be just that– a set of illustrations and keys that enabled accurate identification of a particular group of animals or plants. Recently they have included so much more and this excellent guide is a good example of this inclusive approach. It doesn't neglect the identification task, for there are really clear and full sets of photographs of every species of slug found in Britain and Ireland, showing different aspects, including the underside of the foot, the slugs in their curled shapes, all with annotations and a guide to the colours that the slugs can adopt. There is also a very full, useful and user-friendly multivariate identification section, which is very helpful indeed [...] Overall this could genuinely claim to be a complete text on the biology and ecology of slugs. It can be highly recommended." Bobby Talbot, 18, and Donna Moss, 17, are having sex in Donna's parents' bedroom while they are out. Slugs make their way through the garden, into the drain, up the drain pipe, along the guttering, down onto a window sill and drop onto the floor of the bedroom. Donna is killed first as the slugs crawl inside her. Bobby, also being eaten alive jumps from the bedroom window straight onto a cold frame below and is killed by a shard of glass.

The Way Home For Wolf is one of my absolute favourite small children's books so I was really excited to get this one from netgalley. This story relies too heavily on alliteration to choose words that are clear to the intended audience age levels. It's fine to use words above age level here and there, but there are complete sentences here that many adults would likely need to figure out, with no contextual language clues. Some of this is due to common language usage changes since this book was written perhaps.Harold Morris, keen gardener, puts on a garden glove that has slugs in some of the fingers. They eat most of his hand by the time Harold, assisted by his wife Jean manage to cut it off with shears and a trowel. I admit, I was looking a bit funnily when I saw the title of the book. Slugs in love? Slugs aren’t really my favourite creatures, and one in love sounds weird. But I still couldn’t resist, and I do love reading some very random books so requesting it was. And here I am. Reading it. This richly illustrated full-colour AIDGAP guide provides comprehensive, picture-based identification charts and species accounts for 46 slug and semi-slug species now known from Britain or Ireland. It includes advice on recognising the pest species and their control in gardens. The S-words and S- shapes are very much a part of the story. I would start out by asking what SMUG means. It is very much a part of this snail's personality and his undoing. Our Smug slug starts up a steep slope and his animal friends all voice loud warnings, but Slug keeps climbing. By the time you get to the eyes you have a sense that this is not good. And then you find out that frogs eat Smug Slugs. Slugs in the cellar of an old house feed on scraps of rotten meat someone is unknowingly throwing down to them.

Brady goes to a garden centre and buys a bottle of slug poison and some slug pellets. He puts them down in his garden. As a teacher, I appreciate how Slug in Love can be used to spark discussions about emotions, friendship, and self-acceptance in the classroom. The story provides opportunities to teach children about empathy, diversity, and the importance of expressing emotions in a healthy and authentic way. These themes are conveyed in a gentle and accessible manner, making it a valuable tool for social-emotional learning. This is a cute book with really beautiful artwork. I usually have quite a soft spot for children's books that are about animals that aren't usually considered cute. So, I loved that this is about a slug (who is actually very cute thanks to the artwork). Upon completing this adorably funny book, I informed everyone at work that they need to read this book, and recommend it to absolutely everyone. It's hilarious, it's cute and that Snail has glasses.This new book represents a quantum leap forward for slug biology, and its appearance should revolutionise work on these fascinating animals. It can really get the 'slug world' moving, and for those already engaged in study it should provide the means to approach identification with a new confidence. Certain aspects of slug identification will never be easy, but the book provides assistance and encouragement to make the task less daunting and even relatively straightforward. By revealing the fascinating diversity it will surely encourage many newcomers to look at slugs in a new light. The guide is also a keystone work that can assist in the study of distributional changes that relate to the spread of invasive species, as well as revealing more about the true range of our established slug fauna. It really bothered me - I don't know that a kid would be bothered - but the fact that the last line doesn't rhyme. It didn't seem to bother the preschool kids to whom this book was read in storytime, so there's that, but for me, it was a little jarring. In recent years, those working on terrestrial molluscs have expehenced an increasingly frustrating time in the task of identification. Although some species are relatively easy to identify, others can be extremely difficult to separate. It's a problem that has arisen thanks to the arrival and spread of non-native species as well as the realisation that some established species may have been incorrectly named or are actually a group of closely inter-related species, typically requiring specialist Identification techniques to resolve. Poor Doug. All he wants is a hug! But Doug is a slug - a slimy slug that no one wants to hug! Do you think Doug will be able to find someone to hug? Let's read the story and find out! Many thanks to Simon & Schuster Children’s UK and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.