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.

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

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