Wiggling Worms at Work

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Read and find out about worms and the important work they do in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.

Crawling through the dirt, worms are hard at work. Worms help the fruit and vegetables we eat by loosening the soil and feeding the plants. Read and find out about these wiggling wonders!

This clear and appealing science book for early elementary age kids, both at home and in the classroom, lets readers know about all the important ways worms work to help the environmentand people. It contains a find out more section with fun activities.

This is a Level 2 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book explores more challenging concepts for children in the primary grades. The 100+ titles in this leading nonfiction series are:

• hands-on and visual
• acclaimed and trusted
• great for classrooms

Top 10 reasons to love LRFOs:

• Entertain and educate at the same time
• Have appealing, child-centered topics
• Developmentally appropriate for emerging readers
• Focused; answering questions instead of using survey approach
• Employ engaging picture book quality illustrations
• Use simple charts and graphics to improve visual literacy skills
• Feature hands-on activities to engage young scientists
• Meet national science education standards
• Written/illustrated by award-winning authors/illustrators & vetted by an expert in the field
• Over 130 titles in print, meeting a wide range of kids' scientific interests

Books in this series support the Common Core Learning Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) standards. Let's-Read-and-Find-Out is the winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series.

Author Bio

Wendy Pfeffer is the author of several titles in the Let's Read and Find Out Science series, including From Tadpole to Frog, What's It Like to Be a Fish, From Seed to Pumpkin, Sounds All Around, Light is All Around You, Wiggling Worms at Work, Dolphin Talk, and Life in a Coral Reef. She lives in Pennington. NJ and enjoys making author visits to schools. You can visit her online at www.author-illustrator-source.com/wendy-pfeffer.html.