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It's Not About The Diamonds!
Written by Veronika Martenova Charles
Illustrated by David Parkins

Diamonds and Toads might be the best known of the stories belonging to a type of tale called "The Kind and the Unkind Girls." Over a thousand of these tales have been found around the world. It's Not About The Diamonds presents three of them.

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Excerpted from It's Not About TheDiamonds! by Veronika Martenova Charles. Copyright © 2013 by Veronika Martenova Charles. Excerpted by permission of Tundra Books. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

 
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