Quick Booktalk
Doug the slug has a hard time finding someone to hug him.
About the Illustrations
The illustrations really carry this book. All the humor, color, and personality this book has to offer are found in the pictures and really nowhere else. Brightly colored blobs and geometric shapes against a white background form the bodies of Doug and the other characters he meets, as well as flowers, grass, and other bits of nature that serve as the setting.
Story Time Possiblities
The clunky rhyming in this book will keep it out of my story times. There is so much rhyme for rhyme's sake - Doug, hug, slug, snug, bug - and yet the author also rhymes all of these words with "love." It feels sloppy and uncomfortable to read aloud.
Readers Advisory
Overall, this book just gave me a weird vibe. Kids don't generally relate to stories about falling in love, or about the loneliness of not being able to find someone to love, so the subject matter feels like a weird choice. The ending also feels very tacked on and unsatisfying.
Disclosure
I received a finished review copy of Slug in Love from Paula Wiseman Books in exchange for an honest review.
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