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Authors: Kate Bernheimer
The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum
Text copyright © 2008 by Kate Bernheimer
Illustrations copyright © 2008 by Nicoletta Ceccoli
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bernheimer, Kate.
The girl in the castle inside the museum / Kate Bernheimer; illustrated by Nicoletta Ceccoli. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Children come to visit a little girl who lives all alone inside a castle, which is housed inside of a museum.
eISBN: 978-0-307-98349-7
[1. Castles—Fiction. 2. Museums—Fiction.] I. Ceccoli, Nicoletta, ill.
II. Title. PZ7.45566Gi 2008 [E]—dc22
2006101854
The illustrations are rendered in acrylic paint, clay models, photography, and digital media.
v3.1
For Xia and a good dog, Baron—K.B.
To Stefano, the boy in my dream—N.C.
O
nce upon a time, there was a girl who lived in a castle.
The castle was in a museum.
When children came to the museum,
they pressed as close as they could to the
glass globe in which the castle quietly sat.
For they had heard if they looked hard enough,
they could see the girl who lived inside,
the girl in the castle inside the museum.
It’s been said she’s lived there forever.
Sometimes the girl is lonely when the children go home.
But oh, it is beautiful!
There are moats and turrets
and bright shining lamps.
There are dark winding streets
that gleam in the rain.
