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    <title>The birthday burglar &amp; a very wicked headmistress</title>
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    <namePart>Mahy, Margaret</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">(1936–2012)</namePart>
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    <namePart>Chamberlain, Margaret</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">Illustrator</namePart>
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    <publisher>A Beech Tree Paperback Book</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1993</dateIssued>
    <edition>Published in 1993</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>136 pages : illustrations ; 20cm</extent>
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  <abstract>In the first of these two short stories, Bassington, a rich little boy who has never had a birthday, decides to steal one from Mrs. Herringbone and Joanna Joy. In the second story, headmistress Tatiana Taffeta seeks an affluent farmer's hand in marriage.</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Margaret Mahy Illustrated by Margaret Chamberlain</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Children's literature</topic>
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