The Worms of Kukumlima

The Worms of Kukumlima

First edition
Author	Daniel Pinkwater
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Young adult, comedy
Publisher	E. P. Dutton
Publication date	April 1981
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	307 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN	0-525-43380-5 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC	6862939
LC Class	PZ7.P6335 Wo 1981

The Worms of Kukumlima is a humorous book written by Daniel Pinkwater for all ages and first published in 1981.

Plot summary[]

Protagonist/narrator Ronald Donald Almondotter, having accepted an internship under his maternal grandfather, Seumas Finneganstein, finds this interrupted by Sir Charles Pelicanstein, his grandfather's friend, and accompanies both from America to Tanzania, in search of an intelligent earthworm documented by gemstone-collector Gordon Whillikers. In Tanzania, they are joined by tour-guide Hassan Kapoora and cook Ali Tabu. At the advice of general-store owner Baba Pambazuka, they pursue intuitively the intelligent earthworm's habitat in the extinct volcano Kukumlima, without set directions. Finding Kukumlima accidentally, they discover Gordon Whillikers a prisoner of the earthworms (now identified with gigantic size), required to annually collect the tiny elephant mice used by the worms to purposes unknown. Having explored Kukumlima, and identified the worms' vocalizations (attributed earlier to ordinary earthworms) as means of contact, they escape the volcanic crater during an eruption partly stimulated by themselves, and return to America, where Seumas patents an adhesive sap used in the escape.

Availability[]

The Worms of Kukumlima is no longer in print in its original form; but is included in Pinkwater's compilation 4 Fantastic Novels.^[1]

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