Flight of the Bumblebee by Hazel Edwards and Mini Goss

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First published in Australia in 2008.

This edition printed in 2014

by New Frontier Publishing Pty Ltd ABN 67 126 171 757 Forest Central, Building 7, Unit 4/49 Frenchs Forest Road, Frenchs Forest, NSW 2085 www.newfrontier.com.au Text copyright © 2008 Hazel Edwards llustrations copyright © 2008 Mini Goss This book is copyright.

Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission.

Enquiries should be addressed to the publishers.

All rights reserved.

To Chris Dodds for all his patience – MG For Kim – HE

With special thanks to Gillian Karaviotis GRSM LRAM for her musical expertise and guidance

National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry (pbk) Author: Edwards, Hazel, 1945- author.

Title: Flight of the bumblebee / written by Hazel Edwards and illustrated by Mini Goss.

ISBN: 9781925059205 (paperback) Target Audience: For children.

Subjects: Bees--Juvenile fiction.

Flight--Juvenile fiction.

Other Authors/Contributors: Goss, Mini, illustrator.

A823.3 Designed by Mini Goss and Ronald Proft Audio Recording Sound Engineer Damon Mouris Recording zerO1zerO

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