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Copyright © 2015 by Christopher Colfer
Interior illustrations by Olga and Aleksey Ivanov
Cover art © 2015 by Brandon Dorman
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Originally published in Adventures from the Land of Stories in November 2015
First stand-alone edition: July 2017
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Colfer, Chris, 1990– author.
Title: The Land of Stories : the Mother Goose diaries / by Mother Goose ; with Chris Colfer.
Other titles: Mother Goose diaries
Description: First stand-alone edition. | New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2016. | “First published in Adventures from the Land of Stories in November 2015.” | Summary: “Mother Goose from The Land of Stories relates her adventures throughout history.”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015047351 | ISBN 9780316383349 (paper over board)
Subjects: | CYAC: Fairy tales—Fiction. | Characters in literature—Fiction. | Diaries—Fiction. | Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. | Humorous stories.
Classification: LCC PZ7.C677474 Lal 2016 | DDC [Fic]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2015047351
ISBNs: 978-0-316-38334-9 (hardcover), 978-0-316-38333-2 (ebook)
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