This is a fun and quirky story about two friends and how one helped the other without realizing it. Bob and Otto are a caterpillar and worm. While one goes up the tree and eats, the other digs and digs under the tree. But when Otto realizes the changes that Bob has made, he is sad. However, he does not realize how important he has been to Bob. Not only is this a delightful and brightly illustrated story, it is a great way to introduce natural science to a little one and have a perfect anytime story.

Bob and Otto do best-friend kinds of things together--eating leaves, digging, playing--until the day Bob decides to climb a tree, simply because . . . he has to. When the two meet again, Otto is still the same dirt-loving earthworm, but Bob has done the unthinkable: grown wings. Friendship overcomes all else in this sweet and funny story, because no matter what happens, ". . . friends are important."

Nick Bruel is the author and illustrator of Boing, a New York Times bestseller, Bad Kitty, and Who is Melvin Bubble?. Bob and Otto was written by his father, Robert O. Bruel, and discovered by Nick at the time of his father's death. Nick lives in Tarrytown, New York, with his wife, Carina.

Imprint: Roaring Brook Press
Distributor: MPS
Publication Date: 04-03-2007
Pages: 32
Measurements: 9.00in X 9.00in