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First published 2019

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Text from Flower Fairies of the Spring by Cicely Mary Barker courtesy of Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., 1923.
Text from Flower Fairies of the Wayside by Cicely Mary Barker courtesy of Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., 1948.
Eric Carle, ‘The Art of Fiction no. 299’ from The Paris Review. Copyright © 2015, the Paris Review, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited.
Text from The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle by Beatrix Potter courtesy of Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.
Text from the 2016 Philippa Pearce Lecture ‘John Wayne and Sibelius or The Train Has Rain in It’ courtesy of Allan Ahlberg.

ISBN: 978-0-241-35480-3

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