By Doreen Cronin
The giggly diary of a young earthworm, written like a child's own journal, dirt jokes and all.
This is the diary of a worm, one day at a time, and it turns out a worm's life is a lot like a child's. He goes to school, he plays with his best friend the spider, he pesters his sister. He also cannot chew gum, has to eat his homework, and, being a worm, the ground is his bathroom, which your child will find enormously funny. Underneath the jokes it slips in real facts about how worms tunnel and why the earth needs them.
For a bug-loving child who is also at the age where anything a bit gross is hilarious, this is the sweet spot. It is funny, told in short diary lines a new reader can manage, and it teaches how worms move through the soil and help a garden grow while your child is busy laughing. The diary style also plants an idea a lot of children run with: keeping a little journal of their own.