The Legend of Holly Claus

by Brittney Ryan

  Here I am with Amelia Donnier, who is the Holly Claus Ambassador to France. She lives in beautiful Paris, where she writes a blog and tells children about everything she has learned from Holly.

  Tundra and I take children to the Kingdom of Forever.

  A Note About the Illustrators

  Laurel Long specializes in book illustration. Her debut work, The Mightiest Heart (1998), was awarded the Gold Medal by the Society of Illustrators. The Magic Nesting Doll (2000), a collaboration with author Jacqueline K. Ogburn, was included in the Los Angeles’ 100 Best Books project, a recommendation list developed by the Los Angeles Unified School District Library Services and the International Reading Association. Most recently, her work has appeared in the 2012 Communication Arts Illustration Annual and in an illustrated edition of The Twelve Days of Christmas (2011).

  Jeffrey K. Bedrick has received international acclaim for both his fine and commercial art since the early 1980s. He has created illustrations for books, magazines, and other publications. As a concept artist and animator, he contributed to several film and television productions, including Shrek 2 and The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea. Bedrick lives in Northern California.

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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Text and illustrations copyright © 2004 by Holly Claus, Inc.

  Illustrations by Laurel Long, colorizations by Jeffrey Bednick

  cover illustration by Laurel Long

  cover design by Andrea C. Uva

  978-1-4532-8873-3

  This edition published in 2012 by Open Road Integrated Media

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