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For Mom and Dad, Who Always Encouraged My Stories, Silliness, and Tolerated My Gazelling—C. A. F. V. For Ronan and Luke, two of the best things in the world—R. C. Mervin the Sloth Is About to Do the Best Thing in the World. Text copyright © 2016 by Colleen AF Venable. Illustrations copyright © 2016 by Ruth Chan. All rights reserved. Manufactured in China. For information address HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, 195 Broadway, New York, NY 10007. www.harpercollinschildrens.com. Watercolors were used to prepare the full-color art. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
ISBN 978-0-06-233847-1 (trade ed.)
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