Acknowledgements

Thanks to all my family and friends for their ongoing support.

Thanks to Ellen and Annie for their help with this book.

Thanks to everyone at The O’Brien Press, especially, once again, my editor Helen.

Thanks to Andrea and Robert for their hard work in the UK.

Thanks to all the schools, libraries and bookshops who invited me to read from the first two Alice books, and who unfailingly manage to round up groups of charming, interested children.

Thanks to everyone in third class in LSP who came up with such inventive book titles.

Thanks to all the kind children who have taken the trouble to let me know that they have enjoyed Alice Next Door and Alice Again. Special mention has to go to Sarah Holland who writes great letters.