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  Gossie

  Olivier Dunrea

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  For Ed

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  Copyright © 2002 by Olivier Dunrea

  All rights reserved. For information about permission to reproduce

  selections from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Company,

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  The text of this book is set in 20-point Shannon.

  The illustrations are ink and watercolor on paper.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Dunrea, Olivier.

  Gossie / written and illustrated by Olivier Dunrea.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Gossie is a gosling who likes to wear bright red boots every day,

  no matter what she is doing, and so she is heartbroken the day the boots

  are missing and she can't find them anywhere.

  HC ISBN 0-618-17674-8 BB ISBN 0-618-74791-5

  [1. Geese—Fiction. 2. Boots—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.D922 Go 2002 [E]—dc21 2002000214

  HC ISBN-13: 978-0-618-17674-8

  BB ISBN-13: 978-0-618-74791-7

  Printed in China

  This is Gossie.

  Gossie is a gosling.

  A small, yellow gosling who likes to wear bright red boots.

  Every day.

  She wears them when she eats.

  She wears them when she sleeps.

  She wears them when she rides.

  She wears them when she hides.

  But what Gossie really loves is to wear her bright red boots when she goes for walks.

  Every day.

  She walks backward.

  She walks forward.

  She walks uphill.

  She walks downhill.

  She walks in the rain.

  She walks in the snow.

  Gossie loves to wear her bright red boots!

  Every day.

  One morning Gossie could not find her bright red boots.

  She looked everywhere.

  Under the bed.

  Over the wall.

  In the barn.

  Under the hens.

  Gossie looked and looked for her bright red boots.

  They were gone.

  Gossie was heartbroken.

  Then she saw them.

  They were walking.

  On someone else's feet!

  "Great boots!" said Gertie.

  Gossie smiled.

  Gossie is a gosling.

  A small, yellow gosling who likes to wear bright red boots.

  Almost every day.

 

 

  Olivier Dunrea, Gossie

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