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Garden Wigglers

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This short audiobook by Nancy Loewen and Rick Peterson, is packed with loads of information about earthworms, and is an ideal story for kids: or older people who are interested in natural things, that can help gardens maintain its health.

As the audiobook explains things about the earthworm’s anatomy. Such as earthworms breathe through their skin as they don’t have lungs. They also don’t have ears, eyes, or teeth and that they require water to stay alive.

Although if an area floods, or a garden receives too much watering the earthworms can drown. As if soils become too, wet we may then see earthworms, make an appearance above the surface as they need to look for somewhere else, to go.

Dogs of Venice

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This audiobook is by Steven Rowley, and the story is about a guy called Paul who had planned an overseas trip to Venice with his partner.

Though as Paul thought that he and his partner were splitting up. He decided that he’ll still go to Venice. As Paul realized that he had always felt very insecure with himself when he was on his own, and he wanted to start getting used to it.

As perhaps he realized that it was causing problems in his relationship. Anyway, while Paul was in Venice he had noticed, a stray dog. Paul also thought that he wanted to be, more like that dog. As he thought the dog was comfortable in its skin and Paul realized that he wanted to be comfortable in his skin too.

So, Paul decided to look out for this dog. As he wanted to spend more time with it because he thought the dog could teach him something.

Show Me a Story

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This audiobook by Nancy Loewen and Christopher Lyles is a clever way of explaining how to write a picture book by reading a picture book that is about a goose. Also, this goose’s name is Webster, and he is the main character, in the example they gave.

These authors gave clear explanations on how stories can be broken down into parts. Such as each story need a beginning, middle, and end: and they also let their listeners know what their readers should know at the end of each beginning. middle, and end.