

- Children's stories, Cooperativeness, Fiction, Juvenile fiction
When four million wasps fly into their village, the citizens of Itching Down devise a way of getting rid of them.
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Effortless, comic, warm and resolved.
- effortlessdemanding
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- John Vernon Lord
- First published
- 1972
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- Büchergilde Gutenberg, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co., Houghton Mifflin
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English, German, Japanese, wel
- ISBN
- 9780330240802
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First sentence
“One hot summer in Itching Down,”
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