The last time we saw our hero, he was being carried away by a bird. Now, here he is, sliming along the path, right as rain. He’s Super Slug, the bravest slug in the garden.
Where will Super Slug go next? Up a flower stalk, across a leaf, into the dirt? Wherever he goes, he’ll be looking for adventure. He lives for adventure. That’s why he’s Super Slug.
Super Slug spies a strawberry. Yum! Strawberries are his favorite snack. He starts sliming toward the strawberry, wondering what adventures he will meet along the way. When you’re a slug, adventures are everywhere.
Sure enough, a large shadow appears above him. Is it a bird? Is it a dog? Nope, it’s a shoe!
A giant sneaker is coming toward him. Super Slug speeds up as much as he can. Which is not much. Will he make it? Will he be squished? Super Slug lives a life on the edge.
Phew! Super Slug makes it to the grass just before the sneaker pounds onto the path. That was close! He watches from the jungle of grass blades as the other footsteps down. Where are the feet going?
The feet stop at the end of the garden. Down comes a big cloth. Super Slug has seen one of these before. It’s a picnic blanket!
Super Slug knows that picnic blankets mean food. Much more food than one little strawberry. So he starts on a trek to the picnic spot, and he calls to his slug friends to join him. With any luck they will arrive before the picnic is over.
Hours later, Super Slug and his friends arrive at the picnic blanket. The people are long gone. Their plates of food have been picked up. But the crumbs remain!
Some of the slugs slide into a pile of bread crumbs. Others follow a trail of chocolate cake crumbs. But two little slugs, who don’t know any better, head toward a potato chip bag.
“No!” yells Super Slug. Potato chips are full of salt, and salt is deadly for slugs. But the little slugs don’t hear the warning.
Time for Super Slug to prove his super-ness. He speeds up, wiggling his eye stalks. He dives in between the little slugs and the bag. Phew! Crisis averted. And that’s why we call him Super Slug.