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The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame

The Island at the End of Everything
by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

The Lorax
by Dr Seuss

The Hobbit
by J R R Tolkien

Harry Potter: the Complete Series
by J.K. Rowling

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by Frances Hodgson Burnett