by Gwen Lowe
Then there’s Rachel Hickman, who really understood how this book should look on the outside so that everyone would want to read it. A massive thank you goes to her and also to the cover designer Steve Wells and illustrator Sarah Horne, who drew the brilliant picture on the cover.
After a final polishing (thank you Claire McKenna and Victoria Walters!), all books need to reach the people they were written for. So I’d like to thank Jazz Bartlett, Elinor Bagenal, Laura Myers, Esther Waller, Sarah Wilson, and everyone else on the Chicken House team for making sure that, whatever the Best Minister for Everything Nicely Perfect might have wanted, as many people as possible now know about the Pirus.
And finally, I’m really grateful to you for reading this story. This was probably a wise move, because next time you get a terrible cold you now know what might happen, especially if you start giggling helplessly a few days later . . .
Text © Gwendolyn L. Lowe 2018
Illustrations © Sarah Horne 2018
First paperback edition published in Great Britain in 2018
This electronic edition published in 2018
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