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Also by Bill Richardson
FOR CHILDREN
After Hamelin
The Alphabet Thief (with Roxanna Bikadoroff)
The Aunts Come Marching (with Cynthia Nugent)
The Bunny Band (with Roxanna Bikadoroff)
But If They Do (with Marc Mongeau)
The Promise Basket (with Slavka Kolesar)
Sally Dog Little (with Céline Malépart)
Sally Dog Little, Undercover Agent (with Céline Malépart)
NOT PRIMARILY INTENDED FOR CHILDREN
Bachelor Brothers’ Bed & Breakfast
Bachelor Brothers’ Bed & Breakfast Pillow Book
Scorned and Beloved: Dead of Winter Meetings with Canadian Eccentrics
Waiting for Gertrude: A Graveyard Gothic
ABSOLUTELY NOT FOR CHILDREN
The First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps: Poems of the Late Middle Ages
I Saw THREE SHIPS
WEST END STORIES
Bill Richardson
Talonbooks
For Jean McKay, writer, musician, self-acknowledged ship counter
I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer’d and slain persons.
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Vivas to those who have fail’d!
—WALT WHITMAN, “SONG OF MYSELF,” SECTION 18 (1855)
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