About this title: How do the residents of Itching Down combat the four million wasps invading their village? With a giant strawberry jam sandwich, of course.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good+ 7" x 10" Very nice interior except short previous owner inscription on first page. light to moderate cover-handling crinkles. read more
Description: Reader copy. Hardback-no Dust Jacket. Weekly Reader Book Club. Torn spot on spine, corners bumped, cover shows wear, interior is unmarked. read more
Binding: Board book
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Child
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780547150772ISBN:0547150776
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780395442371ISBN:0395442370
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sandpiper
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780618839520ISBN:0618839526
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Edition: Weekly Reader
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
Date Published: (1972)
Description: Lord, John Vernon. lightly bumped spine, corners, light soil on back, ow VG, BC, no dj. Wide 12 mo, unpaginated, Four million wasps attacked Itching Down, the townsfolks were perplexed but together they solved a very nasty problem. read more
"There's not much to say that hasn't been said. A zillion and a half wasps invade the town of Itching Downs (really, with a name like that, what do you expect? So it's not a waspish sort of town, the wopsies clearly think it is!), and, having apparently depleted the options of "evacuate" and "wait for the first killing frost" and "use up our hoarded stores of illegal DDT" the townspeople decide to get rid of the wasps with - get this - a GIANT JAM SANDWICH. (You didn't see that one coming, did you?) Most people would have made many many regular jam sandwiches and have been done in half the time, but no, these people think big.
They bake a HUGE loaf of bread, use up a HUGE jar of jelly, and SLAM the wasps in between two slices. No more wasps. No more problems. (Well, I guess the wasps figure there's a problem, but this isn't there book, now is it?)
Love the rhymes. Not too thrilled with the artwork, but I can overlook it."
"A very fun read aloud with a sing-songy cadence about a town (Itching Down) who come together to execute a solution to a common problem - four million wasps! As the title suggests they make a giant jam sandwich! And it works! Great, detailed, funny illstrations."
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