This is not an ordinary book: it's a BookCrossing book! BookCrossing books are world travelers - they like to have adventures and make new friends...and with your help, they can even write home to say what they've been doing! (You may remain anonymous if you wish.)

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Ex-library hardcover with dust jacket; illustrations by Jill Bennet. From the book tent at the Punahou Carnival.

Ten-year-old Harry Holdsworth isn't sure what to expect when his American uncle George leaves him an African Gray parrot named Madison, but he soon discovers that Mad is no ordinary bird.

Here's another copy on my BookCrossing shelf.

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Themes for the fourth quarter re-do of Secretariat's 2020 Never Judge a Book By Its Cover Challenge

Week 40: fall colors
Week 43: author nicknames
Week 44: Halloween; orange & black
Week 46: award-winning authors
Week 48: author names with embedded nouns
Week 49: sweet things to eat

Thursday, December 31, 2020: added to this pretty LFL. Happy New Year! (Zoomable photo here.)

Guidelines for safely visiting and stocking Little Free Libraries here.
As a general rule, it never hurts to be cautious and sanitize your hands and frequently-touched surfaces.

Released for Secretariat's 2020 NJABBIC challenge (week 52: 4th quarter re-do), DragonGoddess's What's in a Name? challenge, jumpingin's Ultimate challenge for December (first names), my D for December challenge, and Davros-10's 2020 Science Fiction Challenge.

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BookCrossing: making the whole world a library!