Book excerpt: A Snail Tale (HB) By: Karen A. Bennett A Snail Tale is a very remarkable, entertaining, and true story. On beautiful spring evening, the narrator of this children’s book notices a line of snails coming to her house in order to escape her neighbor’s poison snail bait. The next day, when she goes out to paint her fence white, there is a mother snail and her babies on the back porch. The narrator picks up a baby snail and brings it into her home and puts it into a jar of greenery. The narrator has a big surprise for the readers. This is a fun book and will appeal to children who enjoy books about animals. It is also delightfully educational, too.