"Diary of a Worm is a really cool book, and it's a diary written by a little boy worm and talking about his day-to-day goings on. It's written with a great sense of humor, and it's got fun illustrations to go along with hilarious dialog. Both my daughter end I enjoy reading it together very much.

The worm does a lot of things that your average kid does at school. It's interesting what he can do without having arms, which are certain things that we take for granted; but he goes to school, he has art class, he does crazy things like make macaroni necklaces except for with one piece of macaroni that he wears wrapped around his head. His best friend is a spider, and it's very cute, and you also get to know about the worm and introduce children to the environment.

I think her favorite part is when the worm and the spider, who's his best friend, sort of stand in each other's shoes, and the worm realizes that he can't climb up high like a spider can, he doesn't have the legs a spider does, and ends up falling. It's a stunning realization for the worm that he can't do everything that the spider can do.

I think both boys and girls would enjoy — could be kind of cool for little boys, too, since the worm is a little boy. I'd give it four stars."

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