Buginnings

In Letters, you'll have front row seats to the opening night of "The Alphabet Garden," a special production by Hermie and his friends, featuring the letters A to Z. Of course, opening night rarely goes over without a hitch, and the mishaps will have children rolling in the aisles while learning all 26 letters of the alphabet. Behind the scenes, Hermie learns the important lesson that being in the spotlight doesn't necessarily make you the star of the show.

To compensate for his perceived commonness, Hermie decides he needs to have more stuff than anyone in the garden. With Wormie™ in tow, Hermie sets out through the garden gathering daisies, acorns, rocks-anything he can add to his collection of assets. But when the weight becomes too much to bear, Hermie learns that the most priceless things aren't 'things' at all-they're his friends.

Hermie has invited Wormie™ over to play his new board game, "Get into Shapes." With a flick of the spinner, Hermie and Wormie are literally bending over backwards to do their best caterpillar impressions of the shape that the arrow lands on. The tumbling, bumbling caterpillars attract the attention of the other garden inhabitants, and soon, the whole group of insects is 'getting into shapes.' Antonio Ant™ lends his sectional body to create a perfect triangle; Lucy Ladybug™'s wing forms an exact semicircle, and Schneider the Snail™ has to expend little effort to exhibit a circle. Children will laugh and learn as the caterpillar crew teaches them to identify circles, squares, triangles, and other shapes-with an underlying message of using individual strengths toward a team effort.

Hermie is tired of being a plain ol' green caterpillar. So he sets out on a search to "help" God find the perfect color. Hermie recruits Wormie™ to help him in his mission, and their usual caterpillar antics ensue as Hermie and a reluctant Wormie search God's creation for the perfect caterpillar color. Could it be yellow? No, definitely red. Purple is nice, too. . . But in the end, they find that green was truly one of the special colors in God's palette. With whimsical text and colorful 3-D illustrations, Colors will be a delightful lesson, as well as a helpful reminder that God made us special just the way we are.