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The Girl Who Loved Caterpillars

by Jean Merrill, Jean Merrill

Conduct of lifeFictionJapan, fictionChildren's fictionConduct of life, fictionBehavior, fiction

In this retelling of an anonymous twelfth-century Japanese story, the young woman Izumi resists social and family pressures as she befriends caterpillars and other socially unacceptable creatures

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Book data: Open Library