• Age: 2 to 7
• Grade: p to 2
• Reading age: 3 to 8

See below for English description.

Les hauts et les bas de la vie d'un ver de terre sont ici révélés par le biais du journal personnel d'un fils ver de terre de bonne famille. Fait étonnant, la vie de ver de terre n'est pas tellement éloignée de celle des humains, même si ces derniers grignotent rarement leurs travaux scolaires lorsqu'ils ont un petit creux…

This is the diary of a worm. This worm lives with his parents, plays with his friends, and even goes to school. But unlike you or me, he never has to take a bath, he gets to eat his homework, and because he doesn't have legs, he just can't do the hokey pokey – no matter how hard he tries.

Original Title:Diary of a Worm

Son père lui racontait toujours des histoires rocambolesques à propos de son travail, voulant suivre ses traces, Doreen Cronin a d'abord voulu être agent de police. Elle a ensuite changé ses projets : elle allait étudier en droit. Peu après la mort de son père, elle s'est réveillée pendant la nuit et a écrit une histoire drôle. Ce n'est qu'après avoir obtenu son diplôme qu'elle a publié son premier livre. Chez Scolastic, elle a publié les livres Ma vie de ver de terre et Ma vie d'araignée, deux albums fort amusants écrits sous forme de journal intime.

Doreen Cronin was a practicing attorney in Manhattan when her first book Click, Clack Moo: Cows That Type became a publishing success. But her book was not published overnight, in fact, she had written this barnyard tale even before attending law school but only received rejection letters from publishers. Five years after submitting the original manuscript she got a call from a publisher who wanted to turn her story into a book and the rest is history!

The busy life of a writer left no room for courtroom litigation and arbitration so Doreen made the leap to being a full-time children”s book author. She then teamed up once again with illustrator Betsy Lewin to write another hilarious barnyard tale, Giggle, Giggle, Quack, that continues the escapades of these lovable animals on a farm.

In Doreen”s latest book, Diary of a Worm, she explores the daily life of a lovable worm. Who knew that the underground dwellings and activities of worms could be so funny. Readers may even find that worm”s life is much the same as theirs except worm eats his homework and his head looks a whole lot like his rear!

Doreen was born in Queens and grew up in Long Island. She graduated from Pennsylvannia State University and St. John”s University School of Law. She currently resides in New York with her husband and dog “Ruffie.”

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Harry Bliss réalise des bandes dessinées et des couvertures pour le magazine The New Yorker. Son premier livre, A Fine, Fine School de Sharon Creech, lauréate du prix Newbery, a été un succès de librairie du New York Times. Par la suite, il a illustré de nombreux livres dont plusieurs d'Alison McGhee (Dix dodos avant l'école et La sorcière des dents) et de Doreen Cronin (Ma vie de ver de terre, numéro un au palmarès du New York
Times, Ma vie d'araignée et Ma vie de mouche) ainsi que le livre Adventure of a Chicken de Kate DiCamillo. Il est aussi l'auteur des albums mettant en vedette l'adorable Billy. Harry vit à South Burlington au Vermont.

HARRY BLISS is a cartoonist and cover artist for The New Yorker magazine. His first book, A FINE, FINE SCHOOL by Newbery-award winning author, Sharon Creech, was a New York Times bestseller. He went on to illustrate many other books, including WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER BE, by William Steig; COUNTDOWN TO KINDERGARTEN by Alison McGhee, and DIARY OF A WORM by Doreen Cronin, a #1 New York Times bestseller as well as ADVENTURES OF A CHICKEN by Kate DiCamillo. Harry lives in South Burlington, Vermont.

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