title: Peppa Pig: Fairy Tale Little Library
author: Ladybird
description: A delicious selection of guilt-free desserts from Weight Watchers.
zlib_text: The Book Thing
  
  
  Laura Lippman
  
  
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  Contents
  
  
  [The Book Thing](part0002.html)
  
  
  [Author's Note](part0003.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  TESS MONAGHAN wanted to love the funky little children’s bookshop that had
  opened just two years ago among the used bookstores that lined Twenty-Fifth
  Street in North Baltimore. There was so much to admire about it—the brightly
  painted miniature rockers and chairs on the converted sun porch, the mynah
  bird who said “Hi, Hon!” and “Hark, who goes there!” and—best of
  all—“Nevermore.”
  
  
  She coveted the huge Arnold Lobel poster opposite the front door, the one that
  showed a bearded man-beast happily ensconced in a tiny cottage that was being
  overtaken by ramshackle towers of books. She appreciated the fact that
  ancillary merchandise was truly a sideline here; this shop’s business was
  books, with only a few stuffed animals and Fancy Nancy boas thrown into the
  mix. Tess was grateful 