Ned’s New Home by Kevin Tseng
My two boys LOVE worms. I have a huge rule in my house which they know well: no worms in the house! We have an insane amount of worms in our backyard (which for this gardener is a good thing) and they love to go out with a shovel in hand to find them. My oldest has come to me before with no less than twenty worms all writhing in his two little hands. I won’t lie. That sight does make me want to puke a little. I won’t touch them. Anyways, they enjoy non-fiction books about worms from the library and I’ve listened (book on CD) to Diary of A Worm by Doreen Cronin in the car I don’t know how many times.
So it was pretty much a no-brainer that my kids would like the picture book Ned’s New Home by Kevin Tseng. In this book, Ned, the worm, lives inside a wonderful red apple. He loved to bake apple pies. But when the apple began to rot Ned knew that he would have to find a new home. He tests out various other homes including a pear, watermelon, blueberries, lemon, kiwi, and a bowl of cherries. None of them were perfect like his apple used to be. One day he finds himself being lifted into the sky by a big hungry bird. He manages to escape and lands in a tree full of big, beautiful . . . apples.
A happy ending for this cute little worm and a book which will make children happy as well. And if only real worms were as cute as Ned. If they were, he could move into my house. But as it is, my rule stays. No worms in my home.
Links of interest: Kevin Tseng website, more book blogger reviews.
Genre: Fiction Picture Book
Publisher: Tricycle Press. August 11, 2009
Hardcover, 32 pages. ISBN 1582462976
Copy source: Review copy for 2009 Cybil’s nomination consideration for which I was a panelist.
Ned’s New Home is available from your favorite independent bookstore, Powell’s, and Amazon.
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Tags: Cybils 2009 picture book nomination, Fiction, M-P Title, male author, published 2009, Q-T Author, review copy
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We currently have this book on our library books shelf, borrowed for the second time. Last spring, we bought a worm growing kit, complete with a TON of eggs and a dirt farm to transfer them to when they hatched. After several weeks, we transferred them to the gardens, and discovered we had 28 in there!
on September 24th, 2010 at 11:47 amI noticed a new picture book at the library recently that you might also enjoy – Yucky Worms by Vivian French. Here’s the little blurb, “While helping Grandma in the garden, a child learns about the important role of the earthworm in helping plants grow.”
on September 25th, 2010 at 2:47 pm