Snails are lame – are they? Theres Buholzer proves that the opposite is true in her non-fiction book classic. For six years, she kept three different kinds of snails with shells as pets in her garden, studied them intently and made many surprising discoveries. Young readers experience first-hand how mini snails “ride” on bigger snails, how two snails dance their “mating dance”, or how a snail integrates the adhesive tape, which was used to provisionally mend its shell, into actually repairing its shell.
