Edward and the Great Discovery by Rebecca McRitchie and Celeste Hulme

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THE GREAT DISCOVERY

Courageously written and illustrated by

REBECCA MCRITCHIE & CELESTE HULME

This book was dug up and dusted off by

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To my parents, Vicki and Ian, for encouraging my literary expedition. RM To my amazing husband, Alten, and our little family.

Thank you for your love and eternal patience. CH First published in Australia 2014

by New Frontier Publishing Pty Ltd ABN 67 126 171 757 Suite 3, Level 2, 18 Aquatic Drive, Frenchs Forest NSW 2086, Australia www.newfrontier.com.au Text copyright Š 2014 Rebecca McRitchie Illustrations copyright Š 2014 Celeste Hulme This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted by the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Enquiries should be addressed to the publishers.

All rights reserved.

National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Author: McRitchie, Rebecca, author.

Title: Edward and The Great Discovery / written by Rebecca McRitchie; illustrated by Celeste Hulme.

ISBN: 9781925059007 (hardback) Target Audience: For children.

Subjects: Friendship--Juvenile fiction.

Museums--Juvenile fiction.

Dodo--Juvenile fiction.

Adventure stories.

Other Authors/Contributors: Hulme, Celeste, author, illustrator.

Dewey Number: A823.4

Printed in China

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THE GREAT DISCOVERY Courageously written and illustrated by REBECCA MCRITCHIE and CELESTE HULME

Edward’s mother is an archaeologist.

Edward’s father is an archaeologist.

Edward’s grandmother and grandfather are archaeologists.

And all of them have made very important

discoveries.

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But Edward has discovered anything.

Not a single fossil.

Not a shard of bone.

Not even one piece of treasure.