PUFFIN BOOKS

Published by Penguin Group

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Published in the United States of America by Dial Books for Young Readers, 1969

Published 6y Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, 2004

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Text copyright © John D. Fitzgerald, 1969

Illustrations copyright © Mercer Mayer, 1969

All rights reserved

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-publication Data available upon request

LC: 67-22252

Puffin Books ISBN 0-14-240058.0

Printed in the United States of America

Text set in Baskerville

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it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise

circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in an form of binding or cover

other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition

including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.