Garden Wigglers: Earthworms in Your Backyard

by Nancy Loewen, Rick Peterson (Illustrator)

Overview

Why do earthworms show up on sidewalks after it rains? Find out in Nancy Loewen’s Garden Wigglers: Earthworms in Your Backyard. Fun facts and activities, an anatomy diagram, and easy-to-read text introduce young scientists to the fascinating behaviors and traits of nature’s gardeners —earthworms!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781404817579
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	09/01/2005
Series:	Backyard Bugs
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	11.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.12(d)
Lexile:	530L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 9 Years

About the Author

Nancy Loewen grew up on a farm in southwestern Minnesota, surrounded by library books and cats. She’s published more than 140 books for children and young adults. The LAST Day of Kindergarten and Four to the Pole (co-authored with polar explorer Ann Bancroft) were Minnesota Book Award finalists. Her Writer’s Toolbox series received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers. Nancy has also received awards from The American Library Association, the New York Public Library, and the Society of School Librarians International.

Nancy lives in St. Paul and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University. She likes to read, cook, take long walks, and photograph oddities from thrift stores. Please visit her website at nancyloewen.net.

Table of Contents

A wormy morning — Eating dirt — Nature's gardeners — How worms move — He? She? Or it? — Wiggling back home — Look closely at an earthworm — Fun facts — Make your own worm farm.