Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.6
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
448
Points per Word
0.001116
Page Count
28
Points per Page
0.017857
Series
Andersen Press Picture Books
Description
Slug worries the reason his mother never hugs him is that he is ugly, so he follows his friends' advice to be furry, with a beak, horns and more, until his mother can no longer recognise him. But then he learns that she loves him just as he is.