Big Apple Book Club: True Escape Stories by Paul Dowswell


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Big Apple Book Club Review: Hunter reviews True Escape Stories by Paul Dowswell.

Paul Dowswell specializes in children's information books. As well as writing many history books for Wayland he also wrote 'Usborne's Medieval Messanger' which was short-listed for the 1997 Times Educational Supplement Information Book Award.

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