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- The Happy Nappy Bookseller
Congratulations! Really fits the story.
That is a beautiful cover. Wow.
Stunning!
Amazing. Wheeeeen will my pre-order arrive (first week in March Amazon tells me!).
Thanks, everybody! I read one chapter to middle school students in Brooklyn yesterday and it looked to me like they were hanging on my every word…