Lowly Worm Meets the Early Bird
Richard Scarry
Copyright © 1968 by Richard Scarry. Copyright renewed 1996 by Richard Scarry II.
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in different form in 1968 by Random House Children’s Books, New York, with the title The Early Bird.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the previous edition of this work as follows:
Scarry, Richard. The early bird / by Richard Scarry.
p. cm. — (Step into reading. A step 2 book)
“Adapted from The early bird, 1968 by Richard Scarry.”
Summary: After several cases of mistaken identity Early Bird finally finds a worm to play with.
ISBN 978-0-679-88920-5 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-679-98920-2 (lib. bdg.)
ISBN: 978-0-449-81705-6 (eBook)
[1. Birds—Fiction. 2. Worms—Fiction. 3. Animals—Fiction.]
I. Title. II. Series: Step into Reading. Step 2 book.
PZ7.S327Ear 2003 [E]—lcac 2002013879
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright
First Page
The sun
was shining.
Early Bird hopped
out of bed.
He went to the bathroom
and washed his face.
Early Bird
brushed his beak and
combed his feathers.
Then he put on
his blue sailor suit.
Look at what
Early Bird
ate for breakfast!
“Why don’t you find a worm
to play with?”
Mommy Bird said.
“What is a worm?”
asked Early Bird.
“A worm wiggles.
It lives in a hole
in the ground,”
said Mommy Bird.
So Early Bird went out
to find a worm.
“Are you a worm?”
asked Early Bird.
“No,” said a bug
on a flower.
“I am a ladybug.”
“Are you a worm?”
asked Early Bird.
“No, I am a frog,”
said a fat fellow on a log.
“Worms live in holes.”
Early Bird
saw something
in the ground.
“Are you a worm?”
asked Early Bird.
“I am not a worm!”
said Bunny Rabbit.
“Worms wiggle all over.
Go look in the garden.”
In the garden
Early Bird saw
a wiggly thing.
“Hello, worm,”
Early Bird said.
“You mean,
‘Hello, mouse tail’!”
said Freddie Field Mouse.
Then he scampered
back into his hole.
Early Bird began to cry.
“What’s the matter?”
said a funny fellow.
“I can’t find a worm,”
said Early Bird.
“Don’t cry,”
said the fellow.
“There’s a worm
right over there.
Just hop over
and pull him out.”
Early Bird took the worm
in his beak and pulled.
But the worm was stuck
in his hole.
“Give a big pull,
Early Bird!”
Pppppop!
“Why, it’s you!”
said Early Bird.
“That’s right,”
said the fellow.
“My name is
Lowly Worm.”
The sun was going down.
Early Bird
had to hurry home
for supper.
“Come with me,”
said Early Bird.
All the way home,
Lowly Worm
and Early Bird
played jump-worm.
They had a good supper.
Lowly Worm ate
a lot of peas.
Daddy gave Early Bird
and Lowly Worm
a piggyback ride upstairs.
Early Bird took his bath
with a sailboat.
Lowly Worm took his
bath with his hat on.
Time to go to sleep!
Early Bird got into bed.
Lowly Worm went to bed
in the flowerpot!
Good night, Lowly Worm!
Good night, Early Bird!
Richard Scarry, Lowly Worm Meets the Early Bird
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