Marylou and Herbie, two garden slugs, write love poems in slime to one another but have trouble actually meeting.

Doug the slug is looking for a hug and soon finds there is a friend for everyone.

When it begins to bug Slug that his mom doesn't hug him, he leaves home to find out why. Kitten suggests he should be furrier, so he puts on a woolly hat while

Mama Slug teaches Little Slug how to read.

"Stop!" screamed a sparrow. "Save him!" shrieked a spider. "Silly," sighed a swallowtail. Smirking and self-important, the slug keeps slithering his way up a hi