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The Monarch Award:

Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award
2006 Master List

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2006 Nominee:
Diary of a Worm
A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world.

Author: Doreen Cronin

Illustrator: Harry Bliss

  Book Activities
  • Research: Worms
  • Language: Interview with a worm
  • Writing: Add more diary pages, make a new diary of another animal
  • Hands on: Make bookworms, make PlayDoh worms
  • Art: Draw a worm house underground

  Related Books
  • Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin
  • Toil in the Soil by Michelle Myers Lackner
  • Deep Down Underground by Oliver Dunrea
  • Wiggling Worms at  Work by Wendy Pfeffer
  • Tunneling Earthworms by  Suzanne Paul Dell'Oro

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