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Copyright text and illustrations © 2017 by Annet Schaap
Original title Lampje
First published in 2017 by Em. Querido’s Uitgeverij, Amsterdam
English translation © Laura Watkinson, 2019
Lampie and the Children of the Sea was first published as Lampje in Amsterdam, 2017
First published by Pushkin Press in 2019
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ISBN 13: 978–1–78269–219–5
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