Mona Minim and the smell of the sun
By: Janet Frame ; illustrated by David Elliot
Contributors: Elliot, David, 1952-
Publisher: Random House New Zealand
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Auckland, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9781869417246
Subjects: Ants; Juvenile fiction; Fiction
Description: Mona Minim is a young house ant about to take her first journey out into the sunlight. She is so excited about going outside, smelling the sun and play the stair game that she falls through a crack in the stairs and into a quiet unexpected adventure. Befriended by Barbara, Mona learns of the terrors and delights in the world of the garden ants. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
Notes: Originally published: New York : G. Braziller, 1969.

Novel for children.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1: The first journey; title: Ch. 2: "Is this the sunlight?"; title: Ch. 3: Through the sunflower forest; title: Ch. 4: Aunt Phyllis; title: Ch. 5: Spider snadwiches with the crusts cut off; title: Ch. 6: Winter; title: Ch. 7: By the geranium fire; title: Ch. 8: Naming day and a disaster; title: Ch. 9: "You are not chewing hard enough, Mona Minim"; title: Ch. 10: "Do you carry two lawn handkerchiefs, Mona Minim?"; title: Ch. 11: Swarm day and a departure; title: Ch. 12: Queen Antonia; title: Ch. 13: The return; title: Ch. 14: The ghost of Uncle Pogo; title: Ch. 15: An anklet for a queen; title: Ch. 16: Mona Minim and the smell of the sun.