Slugs

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Summary: A Great Book I Often Give As a Gift!
Review: Anyone who doesn't take life too seriously can benefit from reading SLUGS. I often give this book as a gift to both children and adults. And the stuffed slug that accompanies the book is an able promoter for this oft-maligned creature.

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Summary: Why, there are Slugs that know karate!
Review: Go ahead. Be a bad influence. Give this book to a child.

In a day when children's literature seems full of tiresome passivism, and as full of sermons as any Victorian tract, it's a fine and excellent thing to see a children's book that talks about what they want to hear. Like putting slugs in a blender. Or gluing them to your sister. If this seems lacking in Moral Instruction, take note that those who mistreated slugs get their comeuppance by the book's end.

I got this book for my nieces, and it soon became one of their favourites. And let's face it, this is a lot healthier for them to furnish their minds with than -Bambi-.

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Summary: Take this book to your child's school on guest reader day!
Review: It will definitly get their attention and give them an example of how fun reading can be with the right book! My sister bought this book for my nephew back in the 80's and it has been a family classic ever since. "Slugs" makes great stocking stuffers too! (the book AND the critters!)

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Summary: Don't buy it -- at least read all reviews first!
Review: Oh boy oh boy oh boy. You're not going to find anything like THIS on the market again anytime soon. The incomparable pairing of author David Greenberg and Victoria Chess has yielded a book of hitherto unavailable grossness. Allow me to say here and now that kids have absolutely no problems with this book. It's the adults that peruse it in bookstores or stumble across it in school libraries that find themselves completely disgusted with it. And how couldn't they? Slugs in ears, slugs between toes. The whole book is about the wanton abuse of some very large slugs, ending with a twisted sluggish revenge. The revenge at the end was always my sticking point with the book. I just couldn't look on it with anything but horror. But you know what? That's okay. This book wasn't written for me, and it wasn't written for you, and it wasn't written for someone's uptight Aunt Hilde living in Battery Park. This book was written for the children who like their books a little risqué and a little gross. And to this end it succeeds like nothing else in the world. It's not fine literature, no. But it's funny and weird. Seeing that it does everything it sets out to (and more) I hereby christian this book "Successful" and grant it full accommodations. Your little ones will absolutely adore it BECAUSE it gives them nightmares. And as I've said before, there's nothing else like it anywhere.

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Summary: Slugfest
Review: Oh boy oh boy oh boy. You're not going to find anything like THIS on the market again anytime soon. The incomparable pairing of author David Greenberg and Victoria Chess has yielded a book of hitherto unavailable grossness. Allow me to say here and now that kids have absolutely no problems with this book. It's the adults that peruse it in bookstores or stumble across it in school libraries that find themselves completely disgusted with it. And how couldn't they? Slugs in ears, slugs between toes. The whole book is about the wanton abuse of some very large slugs, ending with a twisted sluggish revenge. The revenge at the end was always my sticking point with the book. I just couldn't look on it with anything but horror. But you know what? That's okay. This book wasn't written for me, and it wasn't written for you, and it wasn't written for someone's uptight Aunt Hilde living in Battery Park. This book was written for the children who like their books a little risqué and a little gross. And to this end it succeeds like nothing else in the world. It's not fine literature, no. But it's funny and weird. Seeing that it does everything it sets out to (and more) I hereby christian this book "Successful" and grant it full accommodations. Your little ones will absolutely adore it BECAUSE it gives them nightmares. And as I've said before, there's nothing else like it anywhere.

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Summary: This is a book to amuse readers of all ages.
Review: Slugs is a book that entertains children of all ages, including those adults who are still kids at heart. It offers an amusing text and hilarious pictures of the gooey little creatures in all sorts of situations. Not only is it a great book to own, but it is also a great gift for anyone who has a good sense of humor.

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Summary: Don't buy it -- at least read all reviews first!
Review: The fact that children will laugh at gross images doesn't mean we need to feed that appetite. If we do, they'll grow up and become adults who enjoy brainless and base shows like FEAR FACTOR. I wish I had read the negative reviews here before buying this book. Now I have to go to the trouble of returning it. I wouldn't keep it in the house. I find the illustrations unappealing, the rhymes aren't even clever or funny. People abuse slugs, then slugs abuse and murder a person. Some slugs wear bras? Give me a break. Nothing funny here. Just an effort to pander to the lowest common denominator.