The Cosy Library: Six
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Ellie, Jake and the dragons explore smoky Dragonmere, and stop for lunch at
Angie's Café.
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3 comments:
I feel exhausted after reading that.
It doesn't mention napalm. Have you been leading me astray...?
That's a really good list of suggestions. But I agree with Mirabel Osler, whose book A Breath from Elsewhere I'm reading at the moment: "By autumn, I don't want to talk about the garden; I want to look beyond the corymb and the umbel."
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