After repeated prompting from your reviewer (and the provision of Miss Lovett's address), Sonlight Curriculum suddenly made an about-turn.

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Also strange was that Sonlight would not say if they had made any effort to contact the author, Margaret Lovett.

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She was just pleased that thanks to Sonlight, more children were enjoying a book that she had believed long gone and quite forgotten.

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So how many copies had Sonlight sold?

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