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Weslandia
Hardcover, 40 pages
Published by Candlewick (1999-06-02)
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Amazon Description
WESLANDIA honors the misfits—and the creators—among us.School is over and Wesley needs a summer project. Having learned that every civilization has a staple food crop, he decides to plant a garden and start his own—civilization, that is. He turns over a plot of earth in his yard, and plants begin to grow. Soon they tower above him and bear a curious-looking fruit. As Wesley experiments, he discovers that the plant will provide food, clothing, shelter, and even recreation. It isn't long before neighbors and classmates have developed more than an idle curiostiry about Wesley and exactly how he is spending his summer vacation. Enter the witty, intriguing world of WESLANDIA.
One Potato Review
In which a bullied, teenage oddball grows mysterious crops from windblown seeds, using their fruit, tubers and bark to construct an entirely self-sustaining alternative civilization, complete with cultish looking robes he weaves himself, a counting system based on the number eight, and histories and alphabets and constellations that need renaming. He finally wins some converts too, be-robed and bedazzled and swishing along behind him on the first day back to school. Revenge of the nerd.
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