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    <updated_at>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:01:53 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[An excellent book to give a child a sense of finishing a monumental task.  Made up mostly of illustrations and pages with minimal word content, this book weighs in at a whopping 550 pages.  It is an impressive book to have read, even if one is not a child.<br/><br/>The story is interesting and int...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80285541">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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