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First published in Great Britain by Collins in 1951
Published in this ebook edition by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2020
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Text copyright © Noel Streatfeild 1951
Postscript © William Streatfeild 2001
Why You’ll Love This Book © Cathy Cassidy 2008
Inside illustrations © Piers Sanford
Cover illustrations © Sarah Gibb 2020
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Source ISBN: 9780007580460
Ebook Edition © July 2020 ISBN: 9780007380763
Version: 2020-07-09
CONTENTS
Why You’ll Love This Book by Cathy Cassidy
Postscript by William Streatfeild
Why You’ll Love This Book by Cathy Cassidy
When I was growing up, books were an escape, a passport to a whole new world. Nothing very exciting ever seemed to happen to me, but I could open the pages of a book and imagine myself as a ballerina or an ice-skater or a lonely orphan at a strict boarding school… and I loved that! Books seemed like a kind of real-life magic
