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Copyright © 1958 by Mary Chase;

copyright renewed © 1986 by Robert Chase

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Published by arrangement with the Mary Coyle Chase Literary Trust

The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:

Chase, Mary, 1907–1981.

Loretta Mason Potts / by Mary Chase.

pages cm. — (New York Review children’s collection)

Summary: Ten-year-old Colin Mason, the eldest of four children, learns from a neighbor that he has an ill-behaved older sister who, when he meets her, takes him down a secret tunnel to a fairytale world that seems to connect with many Mason family secrets.

ISBN 978-1-59017-757-0 (hardback)

[1. Fairy tales. 2. Magic—Fiction. 3. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 4.

Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. 5. Secrets—Fiction.] I. Title.

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2013050862

Cover design by Louise Fili Ltd.

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