Books with title Wally the Wordworm

Help instill a love of words and language and an early appreciation for their vast possibilities with this read aloud for children. A worm that lives on words, Wally finds himself starved for inspiration, until one day, he crawls into a magical book: the dictionary. From that moment, he embarks upon a logomaniacal odyssey of epic proportions, twisting himself into the likes of “syzygy” and “sesquipedalian,” “pyx” and “zymurgy.”From its first publication in 1964, children and adults alike have been delighted by Wally’s wriggling through rhymes and words of increasing ambition and complexity, his acrobatics whimsically illustrated by New Yorker cartoonist Arnold Roth. This edition includes an afterword by Clifton Fadiman’s daughter, the author Anne Fadiman.

What happens when a storybook character encounters the illustrator who drew him—and talks back? In this imaginative series, four animals engage with the illustrator’s hand in amusing—and sometimes infuriating!—ways. These interactive stories, featuring bold graphics that will appeal to artists and art teachers, are excellent read-aloud books for young children. Wally the Wolf is on the prowl for food when he stumbles upon his book’s illustrator, who is sharpening a pencil. When Wally discovers he can’t eat the drawing implements, he grows increasingly cross with the artist, who tries to please him with a number of edible proposals. His final offering—a delectable treat that pleases the wolf—may remind readers of another fairy tale