Adaptation of an anonymous story in the Tsutsumi Chunagon monogatari.
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Wilson's Children, November 1996
Elem. School Library Collection, March 1998
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Summary
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.