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Bennett was largely self-educated as an illustrator. He wanted to go to art school, but he was not able to afford it until the mid-1890s, when he enrolled in the
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and later issued in book form, became a bestseller. Considered a classic of children's literature, it has never been out of print, and it was on a 1956
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