COMET'S NINE LIVES
Jan Brett, . . Picture Puffin, $6.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-698-11894-2
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Reviewed on: 06/04/2001
Genre: Children's
Hardcover - 32 pages - 978-0-399-22931-2
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