This was a poetry book all about different things to do with a slug. It talks about swallowing a slug all the way to teaching a slug how to walk.

This book creeped me out so much the first time I read it. Now it's just great. Creepy, gross, and hilarious. ( )

This simple, poetic, yet gross story has the life long lesson of how to 'treat others how you want to be treated.' It goes on about how humans do the grossest things to the slugs and the pictures even make you gag a little bit when you imagine doing what everyone else is doing. In the end though the slugs seek their revenge! This is definitely something I would read again. ( )

From: http://shawjonathan.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/childrens-literature-is-not-a-genre...

My five year old great-niece was staying with us the other night. At bedtime, having scoured our bookshelves, she emerged with this unpleasant little book and asked me in her sweet, shy way to read it to her. I complied with as much gusto as I could muster. I find the book profoundly unattractive. It has rudimentary rhymes, describing a huge variety of slugs, many being subjected to would-be comic indignities, tortured and murdered in hideous ways, all with images showing the brown creatures impassively accepting their fates, until in the last pages they come and wreak a horrible revenge on a child (known in the book as 'you'), ending:

And after how you've treated Slugs
It surely serves you right!

My great-niece seemed to enjoy having this horror read to her, and when I'd finished she sat for maybe half an hour studying the pages intently. Clearly she is the reader the creators had in mind – she and my sons twenty or so years ago. I am not that reader.

Delightfully gross! ( )