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by: Joanne Ryder  Amazon.com's Price: $5.99 Prices subject to change.Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackEAN: 9780140508918 ISBN: 0140508910 Label: Puffin Manufacturer: Puffin Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 32 Publication Date: May 01, 1988 Publisher: Puffin Reading Level: Ages 4-8 Studio: Puffin Related Items: Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: "Brilliant illustrations and a short text invite an unnamed sleeping, pajama-clad child into a garden teeming with wildlife. The boy gradually shrinks until he is so small he experiences things as a snail would. The incredibly detailed drawings and the idea of shrinking to enter another world should capture children's imaginations."--School Library Journal. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Excellent factual and imaginative book for younger children with beautiful illustrationsI found this book to be extremely helpful in teaching my 4yr old daughter about snails and how they live while also allowing her to see beautiful illustrations and use a bit of her imagination as well; so the book hit three important characteristics that are needed for a child's storybook. It tells of a child's imaginative journey through his/her garden while watching a snail; the child imagines to become a snail and do what the snail does; the text explains what the snail does and the child ... Read More Rating:  - Not impressed I read good reviews of this book online so I ordered it. We are naturalists and it sounded like the perfect book to encourage interest in nature of a preschooler. The illustrations were very nice, but I was not impressed with the story line. I found it boring and not very original. I sent the book back to Amazon. 
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