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Thanks also to the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC), a library of the School of Education at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Friends of the CCBC, as well as CCBC Director, Kathleen T. Horning.

Additional thanks to Aarick Beher, Gretta Miller and the team at TeachingBooks for their invaluable contribution to this production.

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