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    The Abominable Snowman
    The Abominable Snowman
    The Abominable Snowman
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    The Abominable Snowman

    By Terry Pratchett

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    Scale the heights of fun and adventure in this witty children’s tale from the New York Times bestselling author of the Discworld series.
     
    Captain the Honorable Sir Herbert Stephen Ernest Boring-Tristam-Boring (known as Bill) is very rich but very bored. When famed explorer Alfred Tence* shows up at Bill’s door, life gets considerably more exciting. Before long, they’re speeding off in a taxi to the distant mountains of Chilistan in search of the hairiest, most mysterious monster ever known—the Abominable Snowman! 
     
    Featuring the signature wit and invention of one of the world’s most beloved writers, this irreverent, illustrated story is from Dragons at Crumbling Castle and Other Tales by Terry Pratchett. 
     
    [*Yes, that Alfred Tence—the man who rowed from Brighton to Bombay in a bathtub. It’s true.]
     
    Praise for Dragons at Crumbling Castle and Other Tales
     
    “My son and I discovered Terry Pratchett’s books together, when he was about eleven years old. He’d be reading on his own and would start to laugh, and then eagerly read the passage aloud to me—and I’d do the same to him! Pratchett’s books became a shared source of delight for us back then, and they still are today.”—Linda Sue Park, Newbery Medal winner


    “Feature[s] characters heroic or hiss-worthy, pranks and battles aplenty, sly twists on the familiar tropes and his trademark mix of silly humor and accurate moral commentary.”—Kirkus Reviews

     “It’s a pleasure to read Pratchett’s reflections in his introduction and to see his signature warmth, wit, and intelligence light up these simple stories.”—Booklist
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateDec 30, 2014
    ISBN9780544630666
    The Abominable Snowman
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    Terry Pratchett

    Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) was the acclaimed creator of the globally revered Discworld series. In all, he authored more than fifty bestselling books, which have sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.

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      The Abominable Snowman - Terry Pratchett

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      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Table of Contents

      Copyright

      The Abominable Snowman

      Coming Soon: DRAGONS AT CRUMBLING CASTLE

      About the Author

      Clarion Books

      215 Park Avenue South

      New York, New York 10003

      Text copyright © 2014 by Terry and Lyn Pratchett

      Illustrations copyright © 2014 by Mark Beech

      The Abominable Snowman was originally published in the Children’s Circle section of the Bucks Free Press in 1969.

      First U.S. edition, 2014

      First published in Great Britain in 2014 by Doubleday, an imprint of Random House Children’s Publishers UK, a Penguin Random House Company.

      All rights reserved. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003.

      www.hmhco.com

      eISBN 978-0-544-63066-6

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      The Abominable

      Snowman

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      There was once a young man called Captain the Honorable Sir Herbert Stephen Ernest Boring-Tristram-Boring, who was known to his friends as Bill and was very rich indeed. He was also very bored with living in London.

      One day a man knocked at his door, pushed past Bill’s

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