The Bumblebee Flies Anyway

by Kate Bradbury

  White, Gilbert here, here

  wildlife gardens here, here

  willowherb here, here, here, here, here, here

  Withering, William here

  woodland here, here, here, here, here, here

  woodlice here, here, here

  woodpeckers, green here

  woodpigeons here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  worms here, here, here, here, here, here

  brandling worms here, here

  wrens here, here, here, here, here, here

  yellowhammers here, here

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  First published in Great Britain 2018

  Copyright © Kate Bradbury, 2018

  Kate Bradbury has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this work

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  ISBN: HB: 978-1-4729-4310-1

  ePub: 978-1-4729-4311-8

  ePDF: 978-1-4729-6126-6

  Map on page 8 by John Plumer

  Cover and title page illustration by Jessie Ford

  The quote on page 5, opposite, is from Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce (2005), 21w from page 228, and is reproduced by kind permission of Oxford University Press.

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