This is What a Slug Does

This Is What a Slug Does by Mimi May follows Simon, a slug, through one fairly eventful day in a garden. He eats. He slimes. He keeps an eye out for birds and moles. He starts to dry out and burrows into the mud, at which point his head vanishes, which is alarming for roughly half a page.

Along the way it covers how a slug travels on its own mucus, what the trail is actually for, and why a disappearing head is not the emergency it looks like. Illustrated by Aniek Bartels, with a final page that piles on more slug facts for anyone not finished. First in a nonfiction series about the stranger habits of animals.