Some Smug Slug
 Pamela Duncan Edwards
 Illust. by Henry Cole
 (Reviewed by Rebecca Brown)
 1996 HarperCollins Pub. USA
 ISBN: 0060247894
 

Smirking & self-important, a slug slithers its way up a highly suspect slope. Will the slug stop? Are the sparrow, the spider & the swallowtail simply trying to sabotage the slug's progress? Why is everyone screaming at the slug?

Well, I live in Slugland & I know why I scream at slugs as they eat my lettuce & lupines, so I had to pick up this book & find out what Pamela Duncan Edwards & Henry Cole had written & drawn about slugs!

This is a story of pride coming before a fall & most of all an almost tongue-twisting tale of slithering, slimey suspense.

Henry Cole's pictures are wonderfully detailed & focused on a speck of the world - being myopic, I've often seen this world this close.

There are hidden clues, a mystery & a superbly smug slug shambling on against all odds.

Wonderful stuff! Will get your esses in shape!

More from Pamela Duncan Edwards & Henry Cole:
HONK! The Story of a Prima Swanerina(reviewed)
Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke
Rosie's Roses
(04/24/00)

Rebecca