Bill Peet [SEP] place of birth
Grandview, Indiana, on January 29, 1915. Peet began drawing at an early age and filled tablets full of sketches. Often, instead of doing lessons, Peet would draw the margins of his textbooks—which were very popular for their added illustrations when he sold them back. Animals were always a love of Peet's. He and his friends would go traipsing through the woods looking for frogs, tadpoles, and minnows. Most of his adventures as a boy to catch animals were in the hope that he could capture
The Wump World
The Wump World by Bill Peet (1970) is a children's book taking place on an imaginary planet. It is about the near destruction of the only habitat of creatures known as Wumps. These Wumps look somewhat like a cross between a capybara (sometimes called a water hog) and a moose.
The story about these Wumps takes place on their own planet, hence the name "The Wump World". A race of blue humanoids named the Pollutians overruns the Wump World, causing the Wumps