The fireflies
Subtitle: a story.
By: Translated and adapted by Roseanna Hoover. With pictures by Jiři Trnka.
Contributors: Hoover, Roseanna, tr.; Trnka, Jiři, 1912- illus.; Karafiát, Jan, 1846-1929.
Publisher: Atheneum
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 43
Subjects: Fireflies -- Fiction.; Fantasy.
Description: A firefly grows up, learns the virtues and hazards in lighting up the night, and has his own family.
Notes: Based on a Czechoslovakian story; Broučci, by Jan Karafiát, first published in 1875.