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How to Live Forever
By Colin Thompson (illustrator), Colin Thompson and J. Schulman (editor)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Alfred a Knopf Inc
Publication date April 1, 1996
Binding Hardcover
Book category Easy Fiction
ISBN-13 9780679878988
ISBN-10 067987898X
Dimensions 0.75 by 9.25 by 12 in.
Weight 1.15 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $17.00
Other format details juvenile
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
In a fantastical library in which the shelves come alive each night, a boy who lives in a cookbook stumbles upon a long-lost file card for a book called How to Live Forever and embarks on a perilous odyssey through an array of baffling mazes to find it, in a colorful pictorial fantasy.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Book lovers of all ages can take an enchanted journey through a labyrinthine fantasy library filled with every book ever written, where the shelves come alive at night, like teeming miniature cities.  One night, a young boy who resides in a cookbook stumbles upon a long-lost file card for a book called How to Live Forever and sets off to find the missing volume.  Thus begins a journey through mystifying literary mazes in Colin Thompson's tour de force of wit, wisdom, and boundless imagination.

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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780679878988
 
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from Alfred a Knopf Inc (April 1, 1996)
9780679878988 | details & prices | 9.25 × 12.00 × 0.75 in. | Rec. grade levels 2-3 | 1.15 lbs | List price $17.00
About: Every night for two years Peter searches in the library for the lost book on how to live forever, and when he finds it, he makes an important decision
Paperback
Book cover for 9781740519144 Book cover for 9781742756714
 
from Random House Australia (July 1, 2012)
9781742756714 | details & prices | 232 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $14.95
This edition also contains How to Live Forever
from Random House Australia (July 1, 2004)
9781740519144 | details & prices | 240 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.44 lbs | List price $9.99
This edition also contains How to Live Forever
About: A novelization of Thompson’s captivating classic picture book of the same name Peter lives with his mother and grandfather in the museum.

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