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The Sogmarsh Nursery Books

Bedtime tales from a realm where the house will leak, the weather has no opinion of you, and cheerfulness is entirely home-made. Every lesson contains a part the children shout. Let them shout it.

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The nursery register

Read in order · or begin where the weather finds you

IBeasts of the Dry Countries, CorrectedThe first nursery book

Familiar beasts reconsidered for children who live somewhere wetter, stranger, and less impressed by conventional morals.

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IIBeasts of the Wet Country, As They AreThe second nursery book

A local field guide to the creatures that share the mire—and the courtesies, distances, and common sense they require.

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IIIThings That Are Not ThereThe third nursery book

Lessons concerning absences, imagined dangers, and several things one can meet without their technically existing.

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IVJobs Nobody WantsAnd the people who do them

For the child who has begun to notice that somebody must have done it, and to wonder who. Shout this one gently.

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VWeathers, and What to Do in ThemThe fifth nursery book

Six kinds of Sogmarsh weather, six plain instructions, and the words your mouth must know before your fear arrives.

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VIA Bestiary of Small NuisancesThe sixth nursery book

A final register of creatures and daily inconveniences that rarely kill you, but never stop trying your patience.

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