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‘The Burglars’ Ball’: A Children’s Book in Poetry by Leslie Lippincott Hidley and Peter Bellwood

December 20, 2025
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The Burglars' Ball cover, book
by Leslie Lippincott Hidley (Author), Peter Bellwood (Author), Lucy Bellwood (Illustrator)

The Burglars' Ball cover, book by Leslie Lippincott Hidley (Author), Peter Bellwood (Author), Lucy Bellwood (Illustrator)

 

 

The book is available on Amazon here.

 

 

Leslie Lippincott Hidley is retired from the safety business and lives in a small town in southern California. She has published poetry in Sparks of Calliope and other writing in the Ojai Quarterly and Ojai Monthly. She has just published her first long poem, “The Burglars’ Ball,” available on Amazon and a YouTube video of the same title. 

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  1. Martin Briggs says:
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    I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed this. It’s entertaining, beautifully designed and heart-warmingly innocent. Thank you so much, all three of you.

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