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- ↑ "The History of I Can Read!". I Can Read! Website. Harper Collins. Archived from the original on 2010-05-25. Retrieved 2010-07-03.
- ↑ Alverson, Brigid (8 October 2020). "HarperCollins Launches I Can Read! Comics". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
- ↑ Alverson |, Brigid. "HarperCollins Launches I Can Read! Comics". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2024-07-13.
- "Biscuit Goes to School" by Alyssa Satin Capucilli; pictures by Pat Schories. Fiction, 26 pages. HarperCollins Publishers, 2002. ISBN 978-0-06-443616-8.
