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  Cover art © 2014 by Peggy Fortnum and

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  COPYRIGHT

  LOVE FROM PADDINGTON

  Text copyright © 2014 by Michael Bond.

  Illustrations for title page, preface, letters 14 and 15, here by R. W. Alley copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2008, 2012, 2014

  All other illustrations copyright © Peggy Fortnum and HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1974, 1979

  Cover illustrations adapted and colored by Mark Burgess from the originals by Peggy Fortnum

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  Library of Congress catalog card number: 2014952815

  ISBN 978-0-06-236816-4

  EPub Edition © October 2014 ISBN 9780062368171

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  Originally published in Great Britain by William Collins Sons and Co. Ltd. in 2014

  First Harper US edition, 2015

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