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Pendle, a wooden cuckoo

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Pendle

A wooden cuckoo

The little carved cuckoo from Nana Bea's clock.

Pendle met Aurora in “The Cuckoo Who Kept Time”, at Nana Bea's garden.

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The adventure Pendle shared with Aurora

A scene from "The Cuckoo Who Kept Time"

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The Cuckoo Who Kept Time

At Nana Bea's garden · with Pendle

Waiting for Mama at Nana Bea's house, Aurora can't keep still. "Is it time NOW?" On the seventh cuckoo of the old clock, her star clip begins to twinkle.

What Aurora learned

A pendulum keeps time with steady swings

How things work

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