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Cannon, Janell
VERDI
San Diego : Harcourt Brace & Co., 1997
IL K-3  RL 4.8
ISBN 0152010289

What do you want to be when you grow up?  Are there things you know you absolutely do not want to be?  Well, Verdi knows he doesn't want to grow up to be a green snake.  All the green snakes he knows are slow and boring.  He likes being a yellow striped baby snake.  He can't understand why his mother is so insistent that he become a green snake.  He sets off to try to find out what's so great about being a slow, boring, green snake.  What will he find?  Read VERDI by Janell Cannon to find out.

SUBJECTS: Pythons -- Fiction.

Snakes -- Fiction.
Old age -- Fiction.

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