The secret Birthday Message

The Secret Birthday Message

By Eric Carle

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All rights reserved. Manufactured in China. Published in West Germany, 1971; and in the United States of America, Canada, and the United Kingdom, 1972.

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SBN 0-69G72347-4.

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Published in hardcover by HarperCollins Publishers.

First HarPer TroPhY edition, 1986.

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