Tedd Arnold is the best-selling author-illustrator of the Fly Guy series, with two Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Honor books and more than 18.5 million books in print. He is author and illustrator of Dirty Gert, Vincent Paints His House, and Fix This Mess, an I Like to Read book. He is co-author and illustrator of the Noodleheads series, including Noodleheads See the Future, a Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Honor Book, an American Library Association Notable Book, and winner of the American Folklore Society's Aesop Prize.
* "A wonderful sense of protectiveness and appreciation pervades
this story, speaking directly to the marvels that life has in
store. . . . Gert is as organic as they come and a genuine
delectation, worms and all."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"A comically offbeat story about acceptance."—Publishers Weekly
"Arnold's tightly rhymed, originally structured verses are all the
more ludicrous for their polysyllabic precision . . . Line and
watercolor–style digital art features Arnold's trademark
tone-on-tone squiggled hatchwork in the backgrounds and bulging
golf-ball eyes on the huge-headed humans. Additional comedy comes
from Gert's fan club of worms, who comment on the situation in
small ground-level speech balloons. Use this in pairing with
Cronin's Diary of a Worm (BCCB 10/03) for a celebration of the
soil, let novice readers pore over it on their own, or just share
it for a raucous readaloud."—The Bulletin of the Center for
Children's Books
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