A Walk Around the Block

A worm leaves home to take a walk around the block. She does it again and again, but she takes a long time on each walk and ends up losing her way. On her return, something very funny and unexpected has happened to her house: the apple has turned to mush!
With lots of humor, short texts and vibrant illustrations in flat colors, this board book is ideal for sharing with pre-readers and young children. The story develops important aspects for learning, such as numerical sequence, variation in size, and the dimensions of time and space.
The careful selection of words and rhythms in Eugenia Román’s texts, together with an unexpected ending, manages to create a captivating and surprising story. The illustrations, with strong visual impact, not only complement the written story very well, but also provide parallel narrative content.

Key points

• Ideal for developing the imagination, sense of humor and sense of wonder in children who have not yet started reading.
• It stimulates spatial-temporal perception and the learning of numbers, sizes and colors.
• By an author specializing in Early Childhood Education and an internationally recognized illustrator.