Author: Greenop, Frank S.; Cameron, Col. (illustrator).
Title: Jumbo Jet and the Elves: Why You May See Elves on Bee's Backs [Moorooba Books].
Description: Sydney Greenop & Greenhalgh, 1965. Hardback small quarto, good condition, pictorial boards, stapled (lightly rusted, little loose), colour drawings, spine lightly worn, spine ends little scuffed, covers lightly marked, pages lightly toned, edges & pastedowns lightly foxed, small scuff front pastedown, few tiny dents rear board, rear fore-edge lightly dented, minor edgewear. 14 pp. (Estimated date, 1960s, Trove catalogue.) An Australian children's picture story book about some elves who live in a tiny cave in a rockery in the corner of a garden. One day they encounter Jumbo Jet, the dragon-fly, who scares them out of their cave. They then meet Queen Bee who gives a command to Jumbo Jet to leave and not return. The bees fly the elves home to their cave, and ever since that time the bees and the elves have been friends. A fun story for older children or adults.

Keywords: children's literature, nature, insects, bees, gardening, folklore, elves, australia


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