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          <body><![CDATA[Sadder and more wistful than the first Toys book, with a bit more plot and peril. Isn't quite as wonderful as the first book, but it still has many terrific and funny scenes with our three favorite toys, plus a dykey new shark named Spark.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:31:35 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I'm biased of course -- after all, I wrote the book. But you can find some tools for drawing your own conclusions about the book -- named one of the year's best by the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> on my <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.dashkaslater.com/fiction.html">website</a>. There you'll find <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.dashkaslater.com/fiction_reviews.html">reviews</a>, a couple of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.chroniclebooks.com/excerpts.php?isbn=0811826066&store=books">excerpts</a>, as well as a <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.dashkaslater.com/pdf/WishingBoxReadersGuide.pdf">reader's guide</a> and more. This book al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49180558">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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