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Peet,
Bill.
WUMP WORLD
New York : Houghton Mifflin,
1974.
IL K-3 RL 3.2
ISBN 0395311292
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| (Hold
up cover of the book.) This is a picture of my family. (Point
to a smaller Wump.) This is me. We are Wumps. Our world
is very small. It was mostly grassy meadows, clumps of leafy green
trees called bumbershoots, with a few winding rivers and lakes. Our
family lived so happily. One morning we were awakened by this
humming sound that turned into a roar. We saw a great flock of potbellied
monsters with tails and fins, spitting fire and shooting out streaks of
black smoke. Oh, we were frightened! As these monsters landed
we watched huge legs spring out and doors open. Then a horde of tiny
creatures came out of these big monsters right onto our meadow. We
found out that these aliens were Pollutians from the planet Pollutus.
They were here to take over our world! They brought giant machines
that gobbled up grass and trees. They had diggers and scrappers and
gigantic cranes. They worked day and night building roads, cities,
factories, and skyscrapers. We were so frightened by the noise and
destruction that we hid underground, until one day Wump World became quiet
again. Read about what my family of Wumps found as we came above
ground to investigate. (Lorie Green. Library Media Specialist, Manor Hill
Elementary, Liberty, MO lgreen@mail.liberty.k12.mo.us) |
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SUBJECTS:
Pollution -- Fiction
Science fiction |
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