Summary
Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss's giggle-inducing diary, written from a worm's point of view: our narrator records the ups and downs of worm life -- no arms or legs, good manners like never taking a bath, and the useful job of tunneling through the earth. A funny first-person window into how a worm sees the world.
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Discussion questions
A worm keeps a diary about the everyday joys and troubles of being a worm.
- Who is telling this story? How is a diary different from other stories?
- What does the worm think is good about being a worm? What's hard?
- What does the worm notice that a person might not?
- If you kept a diary as an animal, which animal would you be, and what would you write?
Quick work-a-long
Words to know: diary, point of view, tunnel, entry
- Write one diary entry as if you were a worm: start with "Dear Diary, today I ___."
- Name one thing the world looks like from down in the dirt that we never see up here.