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Mona Minim and the smell of the sun /

Frame, Janet, 1924-2004

Mona Minim and the smell of the sun / Janet Frame ; illustrated by David Elliot. - Auckland, N.Z. : Random House New Zealand, c2005. - 127 pages; colour illustrations; 21 cm.

First published: New York : G. Braziller, 1969. Novel for children.

Mona Minim is a young house ant about to take her first journey out into the sunlight. She is so excited about going outside, smelling the sun and play the stair game that she falls through a crack in the stairs and into a quiet unexpected adventure. Befriended by Barbara, Mona learns of the terrors and delights in the world of the garden ants. Suggested level: primary, intermediate. A house ant gets taken by the garden ants when she wanders away from her nest and her advice when she returns home is that everyone must see the world for himself.

9781869417246 1869417240 (pbk.) :


Ants--Juvenile fiction.


Children's stories, New Zealand.

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