This is a warm hearted love story about two slugs falling in love. Marylou, a slug, has always been attracted to Herbie, another slug. One day she decides to start writing him love poems on different things in the garden. Herbie of course is flattered and writes poems back to his secret admirer Marylou. However, all of Herbie's poems get destroyed before Marylou can find them. After many different poems Marylou finally shows herself to Herbie and they live happily ever after with their tiny slug babies.
The story line and illustrations make this book interesting and fulfilling to all readers no matter their age. Since the slugs write love poems back and forth to each other this book deals a lot with different rhyming words. This would be a good book to have out when students are learning about poems or in a classroom library, or maybe even during Valentine's Day to show the theme of love in a different way. I don't think it would be a good book to read aloud just because I can see it not appealing to everyone in the class.
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