The paperback copy of this had a fantastic printing error.

I picked up a copy of the book in Borders as part of a 'buy two get one free' offer and it ended up being my free book, mainly because it caught my eye as it's illustrated by Brett Helquist (who illustrated the Series of Unfortunate Events books).

There are sections of the story which are about things the children have written themselves and about a third of the way through the book I came across a page which went along the lines of:

"Calder wrote *blank space* then he wrote
*half a page of blank space*"

Not wanting to spoil the mystery of the story, I skimmed ahead and noticed a couple of other similar pages where, for whatever reason, the font chosen as Calder's handwriting hadn't printed.

So I took my book back to Borders to see if they could swap it for one which did have Calder's handwriting. The guy there looked at my book, looked at the other books they had in stock, and then told me that he thought it was supposed to be like that because they were all the same. He did offer me a refund, but I was intrigued and opted to keep the book.

Out of curiosity I wrote to the publisher asking if it was a printing error and if they knew where I could get a copy of the book that included Calder's bits.

Less than a week later I received a packet with a letter explaining that it was a problem with the paperback print run and to thank me for bringing it to their attention/apologise for any disappointment I'd had with my copy (which I hadn't been annoyed at all, more sort of interested in the whole thing) they sent me a copy of Cornelia Funke's The Thief Lord and a hardback copy of Chasing Vermeer signed by both the author and illustrator.

^_^