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My Dad's A Birdman by David Almond, Polly Dunbar

My Dad's A Birdman

by David Almond, Polly Dunbar
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  • Apr 22, 2008, 128 pages
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  • Mar 2011, 128 pages
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My Dad's a Birdman. Text copyright © 2007 David Almond. Illustrations copyright © 2007 Polly Dunbar. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Inc., Cambridge, MA.

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