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The wanting monster / by Martine Murray ; illustrated by Anna Read.

By: Murray, Martine, 1965- [author.]Contributor(s): Read, Anna [illustrator.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Castlemaine, Australia : Parachute Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 29 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780645039504 (hardback)Subject(s): Monsters -- Juvenile fiction | Villages -- Juvenile fiction | Avarice -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Picture books. | Fables. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: A gentle and humorous fable about a tiny monster who causes enormous trouble in one village. The story pits the small village, with its stream and forest and fields, against human greed, carefully stirred into the minds of the hapless villagers by the attention-seeking Wanting Monster. The villagers realise that their emergent competitiveness and acquisitiveness has ruined the life and beauty of their village, just as the Wanting Monster, now expelled from the village, realises the value of befriending.

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wnor - Kindergarten picture books	Wundowie Wundowie Junior Kindergarten	All about me	JK MUR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31111081283325

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A gentle and humorous fable about a tiny monster who causes enormous trouble in one village. The story pits the small village, with its stream and forest and fields, against human greed, carefully stirred into the minds of the hapless villagers by the attention-seeking Wanting Monster. The villagers realise that their emergent competitiveness and acquisitiveness has ruined the life and beauty of their village, just as the Wanting Monster, now expelled from the village, realises the value of befriending.

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