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    <body><![CDATA[You don't need to bring your blankie to a birthday party. You might get Jello and potato chips on it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another Alfie story about Alfie's first invitation to a birthday party.  He is frightened to be away from his mother and sister, and brings along his favorite blanket; but in the course of the party, the badly-behaved birthday boy torments another child and Alfie has to choose between comforting the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55703615">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Our first Alfie book. I'd looked at the library for one in the series but had no luck. Then Nathan found this book and was actually excited to read it. Love the art and story. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I know we read a bunch of Shirley Hughes stories with Alfie in . Also we have read several other books she's written, of which titles I am trying to remember. She is an excellent author of children's books and her illustrations are lovely!!!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Charming! <br/>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Join Alfie, his little sister, Annie Rose, and their friend Bernard, in this classic Alfie tale.<br/><br/><em>One day Alfie came home from Nursery School with a card in an envelope. His best friend, Bernard, had given it to him.</em><br/><br/>When Alfie is invited to Bernard&#8217;s birthday party he is a bit nervous about going on his own so he takes his special blanket with him. But Alfie has so much fun that he finds he doesn&#8217;t need his blanket after all &#8211; and he even makes a new friend too.]]>
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