Picture Book 13

Title: Ants in Your Pants, Worms in Your plants

Author: Diane deGroat

Illustrator: Diane deGroat

Genre: Children’s Picture Book

Subgenre: Picture book

Theme: Taking care of Earth, Teamwork
Primary & Secondary Characters: Gilbert, his fellow classmates

Date of publication: 2011

Publishing Company: Harper Collins Publishers

Summary: The illustrations in this book are vivid and eye catching. The book is about Earth Day and Gilbert who struggles to come up with his own idea of what he can do for Earth day. He is lying under a tree when he comes up with the idea to plant more trees. He tells his classmates that when too many trees are cut down, the air can get polluted and stink. Trees are very important to the planet.

I would use this book in my classroom because it is a subject matter that is not only important, but one that they can initiate change among themselves to help. They could start recycling, turn out lights when they leave the room, turn off the water when they brush their teeth or go as far as Gilbert and plant more trees. It would be interesting to see all the ideas that they could come up with to make Earth a better place!