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From MADLENKA by Peter Sis. Copyright ©2000 Peter Sis. Published by Frances Foster Books / Farrar Straus Giroux. All rights reserved. Cover image, text, reading and internal image used by permission. Frances Foster Books / Farrar Straus Giroux material shall not be published, re-transmitted, broadcast, modified or adapted (re-written), manipulated, reproduced or otherwise distributed and/or exploited in any way without the prior written authorization of Frances Foster Books / Farrar Straus Giroux.

From THE THREE GOLDEN KEYS by Peter Sis. Copyright ©1994 Peter Sis. First Farrar Straus Giroux edition, Copyright ©2001. All rights reserved. Cover image, text, reading and internal image used by permission. Farrar Straus Giroux material shall not be published, re-transmitted, broadcast, modified or adapted (re-written), manipulated, reproduced or otherwise distributed and/or exploited in any way without the prior written authorization of Farrar Straus Giroux.

From TIBET THROUGH THE RED BOX by Peter Sis. Copyright ©1998 Peter Sis. Published by Frances Foster Books / Farrar Straus Giroux. All rights reserved. Cover image, text, reading and internal image used by permission. Frances Foster Books / Farrar Straus Giroux material shall not be published, re-transmitted, broadcast, modified or adapted (re-written), manipulated, reproduced or otherwise distributed and/or exploited in any way without the prior written authorization of Frances Foster Books / Farrar Straus Giroux.

From THE TRAIN OF STATES by Peter Sis. Copyright ©2004 Peter Sis. Published by Greenwillow Books/ HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved. Images used by permission.

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From THE HOBBIT by J.R.R. Tolkien; illustrated by Peter Sis. Cover copyright ©2001 Peter Sis. Published by Houghton Mifflin. All rights reserved. Cover image used by permission.

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