What the Dormouse Said
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Peters Fraser & Dunlop: Lines from The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts by Hilaire Belloc and from “The Vulture” from Cautionary Verses by Hilaire Belloc are reprinted by permission of Peters Fraser & Dunlop.
Random House, Inc.: From “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” from And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou. Copyright © 1978 by Maya Angelou. From Peach and Blue by Sarah Kilborne. Text copyright © 1994 by Sarah S. Kilborne. From Victor and Christabel by Petra Mathers. Copyright © 1993 by Petra Mathers. From Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold. Copyright © 1991 by Faith Ringgold. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc. From Oh, the Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss.™ Copyright © 1990 by Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc. and International Creative Management, Inc. From Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! by Dr. Seuss.™ Copyright © 1975 by Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc. and International Creative Management, Inc. From Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss.™ Copyright © 1958 and renewed 1986 by Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc. and International Creative Management, Inc.
Scholastic Inc.: From Beautiful Warrior: The Legend of the Nun’s Kung Fu by Emily Arnold McCully. An Arthur Levine Book, published by Scholastic Press, a division of Scholastic Inc. Copyright © 1998 by Emily Arnold McCully. Reprinted by permission.
Simon & Schuster: From Gregory the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat. Text copyright © 1980 by Mitchell Sharmat. From Poems by Rachel Field (Macmillan, New York, 1957). From Eloise by Kay Thompson. Drawings by Hilary Knight. Copyright © 1955 by Kay Thompson; © renewed 1983 by Kay Thompson. Reprinted with the permission of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division.
A. P. Watt Ltd. From “The Beginning of the Armadillos” and from “How the Camel Got His Hump” from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling; from “Children’s Song” from Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rudyard Kipling; and from “If—”from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling by permission of A. P. Watt Ltd. on behalf of The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty.
If you have a favorite line that isn’t included in What the Dormouse Said, please feel free to send me a note. Be sure to provide the source and where the quote can be found in the book. You can send it to Amy Gash in care of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 708 Broadway, New York, NY 10003.
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©1999 by Amy Gash. Illustrations ©1999 by Pierre Le-Tan. Foreword ©1999 by Judith Viorst. All rights reserved.
First paperback edition, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, November 2004. Originally published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in 1999.
For permission to reprint these excerpts, grateful acknowledgment is made to the holders of copyright, publishers, or representatives named on pages 143-146, which constitute an extension of the copyright page.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
E-book ISBN 978-1-56512-906-1
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