scifi about a species that advances so fast they pave over the world only to be forced to leave it

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scifi about a species that advances so fast they pave over the world only to be forced to leave it

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1gnhflyer72
Aug 30, 2010, 7:23 am

Childrens, hardcover, probably published mid-late 1970's, had a funny looking horse-camel type animal that was losing its natural habitat to the growing industrialization of the human-like creatures. By the end there are fewer and fewer of the horse-like creatures and the world is all paved. Then the human creatures depart the platen on spacecraft. I remember the last page being a picture of the pavement cracking and a single blade of grass growing up through the crack.

2MyriadBooks
Aug 30, 2010, 8:54 am

I'll bet you are looking for Wump World. I loved it as a child!

3gnhflyer72
Aug 30, 2010, 5:10 pm

That is it, Amazing! Thanks so much, I can't wait for my kids to read this!

4MyriadBooks
Aug 30, 2010, 6:02 pm

My pleasure!