The Magic Seeds: Tessa in Termitaria
McKeown, Keith C. (illustrated by John Andrews)
From N & A Smiles, Kellerberrin, WA, Australia
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since April 7, 1998
From N & A Smiles, Kellerberrin, WA, Australia
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since April 7, 1998
About this Item
VG original tan cloth, blue-stamped titles, moderate shelf-wear, internally very clean throughout, in chipped DW, with (appropriately) slightly chewed top edge. There are three small chips to lower edge, and large pieces out of head & heel of spine panel. Now protected in Brodart-sleeve. Illustrated by John Andrews. An etymological fantasy. Tessa gives her governess the slip and makes her way alone into the bush. She sits on a stump full of white ants, and muses aloud that if she were as small as a white ant she could easily hide in the bush until the morning. Then strange things begin to happen. A cricket speaks to her and suggests that if she swallows fern-seed she will become as small as a white ant. Tessa swallows the fern-seed and is plunged into a magical world of little creatures. She enters a white ants' city and their learns all about their civilisation. The Magic Seeds reads like a fairy-tale, but the author, an eminent entymologist and naturalist, conveys a good deal of nature-lore through this story. Quite Scarce. Seller Inventory # 15449
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Magic Seeds: Tessa in Termitaria
Publisher: Sydney: New Century Press 1940 First Edition cr.8vo 169,6pp ill.
Publication Date: 1940
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
Edition: 1st Edition
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