Click on the image and print a coloring page!
Then squirm on over to Charlesbridge's website for all things Wiggle and Waggle:
~Buy a copy for yourself or a friend!
~Download an activity kit that includes sheet music for Wiggle and Waggle's hit single The Digging Song!, recipes, word games and more!
~Link to Wiggle and Waggle's MySpace page
~Link to Wiggle and Waggle YouTube Movie.
Awards:
~ California Collection(California Readers) 2009
~ Bank Street College of Education Best Books of the Year 2007
~ Association of Booksellers for Children Best Books for Children 2007
~ Earlychildhood News Directors Choice Award 2007
~ Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best 2007
Reviews:
Publishers Weekly - July 9, 2007
...Peterson (No Time to Nap!) is all-around terrific, tightly cropping her environments to keep the action focused on her characters and conveying a sense of contrasting scale (an unharvested carrot dwarfs the two worms). As for the two leads themselves, they're spunky, comically gangly, and just vulnerable enough to be adorable. For youngsters smitten by this duo, a list of facts about worms and how they contribute to a healthy garden concludes this cheery collection.
Library Media Connection - January 1, 2008
This chapter book showcases Wiggle and Waggle, the earthworms that work hard in the garden but also have fun. ...Young readers will be captivated! The illustrations of both worms, especially Waggle in his glasses, and their underground tunnels looping around all the vegetables in the garden are delightful! I really love the picture of them sleeping with little distended bellies after their picnic of dirt rolls, bug juice, and mud pies. This should become a favorite, and I hope we'll see more Wiggle and Waggle adventures. Recommended.
Charlotte's Library - July 11, 2007
Wiggle and Waggle tells of the simple doings/diggings of two worms (the eponymous Wiggle and Waggle), in 5 well-illustrated chapters. This book works very well both as a read-aloud and as an early reader. I tried it on my children (4 and 6) last night as both, with great success. Of course, its worth as an early reader was perhaps compromised by the fact that I had to read it out loud three times at the request of the 4 year old before the 6 year old got a chance to try.
The illustrations are simple, with touches of whimsical detail -- after eating their picnic, for instance, the worms have round little tummies, which delighted my youngest. It is a tricky thing, I imagine, to illustrate an early reader--one doesn't want illustrations that distract too much from the text, but they still should be interesting. I think Peterson does a fine job striking that balance. The book itself is very handsome. Even thought the words themselves are simple, and the chapters short, the hardcover edition I have looks much more like a Real Book than most early readers, which is all to the good.
"This book should be called Cute Wormies," said my 4 year old, a pretty good summation of this charming, but not particularly deep (dig related pun) book.
Kirkus Reviews - June 1, 2007
Arnold, known for her science nonfiction, tucks plenty of natural history into this quintet of easy reading tales. Singing a work song - "We wiggle and waggle, squiggle and squirm. / Digging in dirt is the life of a worm" - two earthworms aerate a vegetable garden, work together to shift a rock out of the way, picnic beneath a bucket on dirt rolls and bug juice, play in a rain puddle and, finally, at summer's end, tunnel down for a long rest. Placing her worms in a well-tilled setting among healthy-looking veggies, Peterson endows them with smiles and goggle eyes, plus subtle differences in body color, and for Waggle, a pair of eyeglasses. An altogether agreeable visit to the garden, unsurprisingly capped by a page of additional worm facts.
School Library Journal - November 1, 2007
...The simple illustrations enhance the humor and provide the graphic support that new readers need.
