The day they parachuted cats on Borneo
Subtitle: a drama of ecology.
By: Play by Charlotte Pomerantz. Scenery by Jose Aruego.
Contributors: Aruego, José, illus.
Publisher: Young Scott Books
Published: 1971
Place of publication: [Reading, Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: DDT (Insecticide) -- Juvenile literature.; Pesticides -- Environmental aspects -- Juvenile literature.; Ecology.
Description: Describes in rhyme the destruction of Borneo's ecological balance when DDT, used to kill the malaria-spreading mosquitoes, also killed the cats, causing a plague of rats, and literally brought the roofs down on the farmers' heads.