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The first draft of ‘Hush, the Invisible Mouse’ and the book that it became, Mem Fox and Julie Vivas, Papers of Mem Fox, National Library of Australia, MS 9190/9.1/2 and 4, 1983. Courtesy Jenny Darling and Associates
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