For Ages 7-9:
This month’s book: Darwin’s Super-Pooping Worm Spectacular by Polly Owen
Registration Required
Homeschoolers are invited to discuss 2026 CT Nutmeg Book Award Nominees & !
Who: Ages 7-9
Location: Avon Library, 2nd Floor – Storytime Room
Guardians and siblings are welcome to enjoy the children’s library floor & play area.
Children are responsible for obtaining their own copy of the book. If you need help getting a copy, please call 860 673 9712 ext 3 during regular library hours.
Have kids and teens of different ages? You have options!
Kids ages 7-9 will read and discuss Darwin’s Super-Pooping Worm Spectacular by Polly Owen
Kids ages 9-12 will read and discuss Speak Up! by Rebecca Burgess
Teens ages 12-18 Teen Homeschool Hangout: A social hour for Homeschool teens during book club discussions.
If your child is age 9 or 12 they can decide which of the two programs they would like to join that month.
The two separate book discussion groups will meet in adjoining rooms.
About Darwin’s Super-Pooping Worm Spectacular by Polly Owen
Learn the funny and fascinating story of Charles Darwin and the groundbreaking discoveries that resulted from his love of the humble worm in this hilarious, illustrated children’s book.
Charles Darwin is widely known for his Origin of Species book, yet Darwin had another great love, and that was for worms.
Told for the first time for children, this is the silly and fascinating true story of how Charles Darwin came to discover that the humble earthworm is the most important species on our planet .
Darwin suspected worms were special but his scientist friends laughed at him . In a quest to find out the worms’ special talent, Darwin played the bassoon to the worms to see if they could hear, laid out a picnic treasure hunt for them to see how well they could smell, among many other bizarre but entirely true experiments .
But so far Darwin didn’t find anything extra special about worms. Until, one day he realized that worms do have a superpower. They POOP! Without their life-sustaining, nutrient-rich poop, there would be no plants and no animals on earth.
Darwin’s 40 years studying worms is still essential to our understanding of worms today , and ever since, scientists have taken him VERY seriously, and never again laughed at his love of worms.
The story of Darwin and the worms not only centers around the perennially brilliant subject of poop.
Curious minds will love this fact-filled, laugh-out-loud book.
Sign up below for the younger group for ages 7-9. We will have two book discussion groups, one for ages 7-9 and one for ages 9-12.
Click here to sign up for the ages 9-12 book club group of Speak Up! the graphic novel