Franklin's Christmas Gift (3 page)

“This is my best Christmas present ever,” said Great Aunt Harriet.

Franklin got that good-all-over feeling one more time.

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Text © 1998 Contextx

Illustrations © 1998 Brenda Clark Illustrator Inc.

Interior illustrations prepared with the assistance of Shelley Southern.

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Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data

Bourgeois, Paulette

Franklin's Christmas Gift

ISBN 978-1-4532-1953-9 (ePub)

I. Clark, Brenda . II. Title

PS8553.085477F62 1998     jC813'.54     C98-930321-7

PZ7.B68Fr 1998

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