The girl who loved caterpillars
Subtitle: a twelfth-century tale from Japan
By: adapted by Jean Merrill ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper.
Contributors: Cooper, Floyd, ill.
Publisher: Philomel Books
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Conduct of life -- Fiction.; Japan -- Fiction.
Other titles: Tsutsumi Chūnagon monogatari.
Description: In this retelling of an anonymous twelfth-century Japanese story, the young woman Izumi resists social and family pressures as she befriends caterpillars and other socially unacceptable creatures.
Notes: Adaptation of an anonymous story in the Tsutsumi Chūnagon monogatari.