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First published by Kestrel Books 1984
Published in Puffin Books 1985
Published in this edition 2007

Text copyright © Humphrey Carpenter, 1984
Illustrations copyright © Frank Rodgers, 1984
Introduction copyright © Julia Eccleshare, 2007

The moral right of the author and illustrator has been asserted

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ISBN: 978-0-141-91438-1