For Maggie and Melinda
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First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1971
This edition published 2018
Copyright © William Steig, 1971
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ISBN: 978–0–241–34647–1
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Amos, a mouse, lived by the ocean. He loved the ocean.