Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 592.64
EAN: 9780060284480
ISBN: 006028448X
Label: HarperCollins
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 40
Publication Date: January 01, 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Release Date: December 23, 2003
Sales Rank: 1111725
Studio: HarperCollins

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:


Deep underground and on the surface, worms are hard at work! Worms work like little plows, burrowing through soil by swallowing it. As they make their way through the dirt, worms loosen the soil so roots can spread and grow. Worms eat the bits of leaves and plants mixed with the dirt and leave behind castings that feed the plants. Find out how worms help us as they wiggle their way underground.






Rating: - Great Introduction for Kids
Children will learn that worms have value beyond fishing and food for birds with Wiggling Worms at Work. The illustration is beautiful but not quite as engaging for younger children as other books in the Let's Read and Find Out Science series.

It begins by piquing a child's interest in what is going on underground all the time. The images do open a child's imagination as to what goes on beneath the surface of the ground.

Vocabulary children will learn include:
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Rating: - Earthworms-Workers
Another great picture book for younger children to understand the soil beneath the grass line, that they cannot see. The activity that takes place there is amazing to them.

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Rating: - Excellent book and series
As a mother, teacher, and naturalist, I have been very impressed with this book (as well as the other Let's-Read-and-Find-Out series). It is incredible how so much information is packed into a book for kids and is also full of colorful artwork engaging to the eye. This book about worms covers how worms help the earth, how they eat, make waste, reproduce (tastefully written of course), where they go in the winter, why you find them out when it's raining, how they sense things around them, how their ... Read More

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