As a digital subscriber, you’ll receive unlimited access to Horn Book web exclusives and extensive archives, as well as access to our highly searchable Guide/Reviews Database.
To access other site content, visit The Horn Book homepage.
To continue you need an active subscription to hbook.com.
Subscribe now to gain immediate access to everything hbook.com has to offer, as well as our highly searchable Guide/Reviews Database, which contains tens of thousands of short, critical reviews of books published in the United States for young people.
Thank you for registering. To have the latest stories delivered to your inbox, select as many free newsletters as you like below.
No thanks. Return to article
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Jenni Desmond.
"Once upon a slime, there was a Slodge. The first Slodge in the universe." She goes about her life and then gets a shock: "There was another Slodge!" After a competitive period, they realize that "the world...belonged to everyone." The Slodges, who resemble solid-color blobs, enact this atmospheric creation-story-like parable about altruism set in a near-barren mountainside setting.