The Palace of Laughter (29 page)

J
ON
B
ERKELEY
was born in Dublin at a time when suits were collarless and there were no bootprints on the moon. He has worked as a freelance illustrator for over twenty years and has turned more recently to writing. He is the author and illustrator of
CHOPSTICKS
and has illustrated several books by other authors. He wrote much of
THE PALACE OF LAUGHTER
, his first novel, in his head while walking the dog, who is not a great conversationalist. You can visit him online at www.jonberkeley.com.

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THE PALACE OF LAUGHTER:
The Wednesday Tales No. 1. Text copyright © 2006 by Jon Berkeley. Illustrations copyright © 2006 by Brandon Dorman. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Berkeley, Jon.

The Palace of Laughter / Jon Berkeley.—1st ed.

p. cm.—(the Wednesday tales; no. 1) (The Julie Andrews collection)

Summary: Orphaned eleven-year-old Miles Wednesday and his companion, a Song Angel named Little, are helped by a talking tiger as they set off to find a missing Storm Angel and Miles's beloved stuffed bear, ending up in a peculiar circus where the audience cannot stop laughing.

ISBN 978-0-06-075509-6

[1. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. 2. Circus—Fiction. 3. Angels—Fiction. 4. Orphans—Fiction. 5. Tigers—Fiction.] I. Title. II. Series.

PZ7.B45255Pal   2006       2005022801

[Fic]—dc22        CIP

AC

EPub Edition © January 2010 ISBN: 9780062003126

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