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Title: Rainy Day Slug by Mary Palenick Colborn, Lorie Ann Grover, Mary Palenick Colborn ISBN: 1-57061-238-2 Publisher: Sasquatch Books Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (5 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: My son LOVED this book!!!
Comment: I wanted to thank the author and illustrator for such a wonderful book! My son is 2 1/2 and we are avid readers with him. We visit the library often, which is where we found "Rainy Day Slug". I almost did not check it out as my son is usually more interested in trains and trucks than nature and animals, but the illustrations were so colorful, I just grabbed it on a whim. Let me tell you, we have read this book to him two to three times a day for the last two weeks. He now has it memorized and often repeats portions of it while playing with his toys! So, so cute and wonderful! I just ordered it for him for Christmas so that we can quit renewing the library's edition over and over and over and....

Rating: 3
Summary: Great illustrations and a delight to very young children
Comment: The kids both seem to enjoy the silly (albeit forced, as another reviewer noted) choice of words. The book is repetitive enough that it's especially appealing to my one year old, while the pictures are detailed to capture my three year old's interest.

Rating: 1
Summary: Great illustrations, slight story
Comment: The illustrations really make this book come to life!

Unfortunately, I can't say the same for the text. It's an attempt at rhyming onomatopoeia as the slug moves through different parts of his garden environment, and it quickly grows old. Also, the word choices are forced and were clearly invented to fit each rhyme, even if they didn't make sense. "Scuddle, scuddle, scuddle in a deep rain puddle" is fine, but "Scrape... down the long, pink drape" and "Scrug... over the soft, blue rug" seem a little desperate, and "Sable... under a small, oak table" is downright nonsensical.

There's no real story here, either. The slug goes crawling around in the yard, makes his way into the house, and crawls around in there too, until he startles a sleeping child and flees back outdoors.

There are much better rainy day books, and much better garden books, too. Try "Red Rubber Boot Day" by Mary Lyn Ray for rainy days, and "Five Green and Speckled Frogs" (Kelly), "Gotta Go! Gotta Go!" (Swope) or "Miss Spider's Tea Party" (Kirk) for better choices on the critters that live in the garden.