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Wolfsnail
A Backyard Predator
By Campbell, Sarah C.
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-1-59078-554-6
- Publisher
- Boyds Mills
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2008
Gr 3-4 The star of this slim volume is not your common land snail, slipping along its slimy path in search of succulent salads. This is a fierce, speedy (for a snail) predator seeking smaller vegetarian snails and slugs to feed its voracious appetite. Campbell's terse, conversational text follows one such hunt on a damp...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2008
As a gentle rain falls, a wolfsnail wakes up and begins the search for food. Unlike most land snails, this one is a predator, and it slowly but surely tracks an unlucky garden snail. The pacing of the spare text moves, appropriately, at a snail's pace, conveying with a phrase or sentence per page the wolfsnail's de...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2008
A predatory wolfsnail tracks an unlucky garden snail. The spare text conveys with one phrase or sentence per page the wol...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
