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DEAR DOCTOR

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DEAR READING DOCTOR,

Just before the holidays started, our class went on a school trip to an art gallery. We saw some fancy-looking paintings of people and houses and stuff like that, but my favourite ones were the paintings of animals. There were loads of dogs – spaniels and mastiffs and Irish wolfhounds – and in some portraits of people from the past, they had strange pets like peacocks and monkeys. When I got home, I tried to draw my cat but he wouldn’t sit still! Are there any books about art and

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