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Illustrations copyright © 2017 by Gabi Swiatkowska
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hosford, Kate. | Swiatkowska, Gabi, illustrator.
Title: How the queen found the perfect cup of tea / by Kate Hosford ;
illustrated by Gabi Swiatkowska.
Description: Minneapolis, MN : Carolrhoda Picture Books, 2016. | Summary: A
pampered queen sets out in a hot air balloon with her butler, James, in search of the
perfect cup of tea and after stopping in Japan, India, and England, she returns home
knowing exactly what she has been missing.
Identifiers: LCCN 2014035894 | ISBN 9781467739047 (lb : alk. paper)
Subjects: | CYAC: Tea—Fiction. | Kings, queens, rulers, etc.—Fiction. |
Voyages and travels—Fiction. | Behavior—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.H79313 Ho 2016 | DDC [E]—dc23
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Manufactured in the United States of America
1-38716-20632-7/8/2016