SuitabookI Can Only Draw Worms
Will Mabbitt
- Reading
- Read it aloud with pauses for counting and imagining, then offer paper and drawing materials. Invite children to create their own worm adventures without requiring realistic pictures or a complete story.
- Themes
- Simple drawings and creative confidence: The narrator repeatedly presents an inability to draw anything except simple worms, while the book itself turns that limitation into its creative premise. The treatment appears to value making and imagining without expert-looking artwork, rather than presenting limited drawing ability as a failure.
- Humour through repetition and imagination: The book uses worms, recurring jokes, counting and events that readers are asked to imagine, including adventures involving space and unicorns. The book presents this favourably.
- Worth knowing
- Pay attention to the tone around one worm being cut in half after an experiment goes wrong. The presentation is described humorously, but a child may want to pause over that image or idea.