Books like The hungry thing by Jan Slepian

Name: The hungry thing
Author: Jan Slepian

The Hungry Thing comes to town and asks for tickles and feetloaf and other interesting things to eat while the towns people try to figure out what he means.

First publish date: 1967

Authors: Jan Slepian

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