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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2018 by William Joyce
Interior illustrations copyright © 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2018 by William Joyce
Jacket illustrations copyright © 2011, 2018 by William Joyce
Portions of the artwork in the book were previously published, in slightly different form, in William Joyce’s E. Aster Bunnymund and the Warrior Eggs at the Earth’s Core!, The Man in the Moon, and The Sandman and the War of Dreams
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Book design by Lauren Rille
The illustrations for this book were rendered in a combination of charcoal, graphite, and digital media.
CIP data for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-1-4424-3056-3
ISBN 978-1-4814-1554-5 (eBook)