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Stone fox has a team of five samoyeds and has never lost a race. John reynolds gardiner, an engineer by profession, has also worked as a writer adapting childrens stories for television. John reynolds gardiner december 6, 1944 march 4, 2006 was an american author and engineer. Visit scholastic, the worlds largest childrens book publisher.
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