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Happy and glorious

McKay, HilaryOffen, Hilda(Illustrated by)
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Queens have two birthdays, one on the day they were born and one on the day it would have been most convenient for them to have been born on.

It is the convenient one that counts. This Queen is not a happy little Queen. It's her unofficial birthday and no-one had brought her a present.

Not the Prime Minister, not the Treasurer, and not even her lazy Ladies-in-Waiting.

All she wants is one small, one very cheap, present.

Just because it has four legs and a tail and isn't very easy to wrap up.

Shouldn't put anyone off...

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Product Details
Hodder Children's Books
034064074X / 9780340640746
Paperback
823.914
09/09/1996
United Kingdom
English
96p. : ill.
18 cm
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Quiz No: 202277, Points 3.00, Book Level 6.30,
Middle Years - Key Stage 2 Learn More
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Hilary McKay won the Guardian Children's Award and Smarties Grand Prix respectively for her first two books, "The Exiles" and "The Exiles at Home".
Hilary McKay won the Guardian Children's Award and Smarties Grand Prix respectively for her first two books, "The Exiles" and "The Exiles at Home". YFB General fiction (Children's / Teenage)