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NORFOLK  \u003Cbr>LIBRARIES &INFORMATION SERVICE   |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| 894830   |  |\n| PETERS   | 18-Apr-02   |\n| JF   | 23.15   |\n|  |  |\n\nTHEPORRIDGE POT  \nMargaret McAllister  \nIllustrated byPeter Utton  \nOXFORD  \nUNIVERSITY PRESS  \nOXFORD  \nUNIVERSITY PRESS  \nGreat Clarendon Street,Oxford OX26DP  \nOxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research,scholarship,and education by publishing worldwide in  \nOxford New York  \nAuckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town ChennaiDar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong lstanbul Karachi KolkataKuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai NairobiSão Paulo Shanghai Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto  \nwith an associated company in Berlin  \nOxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Pressin the UK and in certain other countries  \n⑥Margaret McAllister 2002  \nThe moral rights of the author have been asserted  \nDatabase right Oxford University Press (maker)  \nFirst published 2002  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by any means,without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press,or as expressly permitted by law,or under terms agreed with the appropriatereprographics rights organization.Enquiries concerning reproductionoutside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department,Oxford University Press,at the above address  \nYou must not circulate this book in any other binding or coverand you must impose this same condition on any acquirer  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nData available  \nISBN 0199194823  \n13579108642  \nGuided Reading Pack (6 of the same title):ISBN0199195595  \nMixed Pack(1 of 6 different titles):ISBN 0199194831  \nClass Pack (6 copies of 6 titles):ISBN019919484X  \nPrinted in Hong Kong  \nContents  \n1 The House of Children2 Magic for Breakfast113 Summer Magic174 The Best Magic23About the author32  \n# Chapter l\n\nThe House of Children  \nAt the end of the village was Mrs Molly'shouse.It had a big garden and it wasalways full of children.  \nNone of them were Mrs Molly's ownchildren.They had nobody else to lookafter them,so Mrs Molly did.  \n5  \nThey were:  \nCharlie,who wasstill a baby,  \nPippa,who wasnearly grown-up,  \nand Paul andJenny,whowere in-between.  \nMrs Molly worried about Paul.He wassmall for his age,and never spoke.  \nMrs Molly and the children grewcarrots and cabbages,parsnips and  \npotatoes,sprouts and spinach,and lotsand lots and lots of lettuce.Mrs Mollyneeded the vegetables to feed them all.  \n\"The children must never go hungry,\"said Mrs Molly.But sometimes it washard to feed everyone.  \nOne winter day,when the frost was aswhite as sugar and as hard as stone,Pippa went to the village.  \nWhen she came home,she was so coldthat her face was pale and her nose waspink.Beside her was a very old womancarrying a 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