The City Under the Back Steps

by Evelyn Sibley Lampman

Hardcover, 1960

Status

Available

Genres

Publication

Doubleday, 1960

Description

Ten-year-old Craig Eaton and his cousin Jill are shrunk and captured by ants and taken to live under the back porch where they soon prove very useful to the ants and also learn a lot about ant colonies.

User reviews

LibraryThing member jennorthcoast
This was one of my two favorite books as a child; finding it again as an adult (I couldn't remember the name) has been delightful. While it is a children's book that educates the reader about the tiny world of ants, I loved (and still do) the idea of "big bugs" as characters in a book, and not
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 necessarily as the bad guys.
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Subjects

Ants Juvenile literature

Awards

Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee — 1962)

Language

English

Physical description

5.5 inches

ISBN

978-9999238960 / 9789999238960

Barcode

8594

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