A small green inchworm is proud of his skill at measuring anything—a robin’s tail, a flamingo’s neck, a toucan’s beak. Then one day a nightingale threatens to eat him if he cannot measure his song. Children will enjoy the clever inchworm’s solution and delight in finding the tiny hero on every page.
Every inch the classic, this was the first of Lionni’s books to win the Caldecott Honor.
一條身體很小、一點力氣都沒有的小小一寸蟲，它有很多敵人，像鳥兒，只要一個不小心，就會被鳥兒吃掉。當點心！可是一寸蟲每次遇到危險時，總是能化險為夷，因為它知道自己有一個很得意的用處，它會──用自己的身體量東西，所以遇到了危險，它就用這個長處來幫敵人量身體、量尾巴、量腳……轉移敵人的注意力。
但是有一天，一寸蟲遇到了一個很大的困難。有一只夜鶯竟然要一寸蟲量量它的歌到底有多長。歌要怎么量呀？如果它量不出來，就要被吃掉了。一寸蟲該怎么辦呢？別緊張，一寸蟲急中生智，想到了一個很棒的方法，它還是用身體一寸一寸地量，最后……
“The lovely colors, the sharp definition of cutouts against white space, the rhythm of the composition, and the simplicity of the whole make a handsome and appropriate book to give pleasure to little children and their elders.”—The Horn Book Magazine
