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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.
PZ8.C38Lo 2014
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2013050862
Cover design by Louise Fili Ltd.
ISBN 978-1-59017-758-7
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