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it begins with a death. The original publication left out a chapter about the children's "Anti-Muffin" club, which advocated diversity and portrayed the Austin children as having a close friend who was poor and Hispanic. ("Muffins" are a metaphor for conformity and snobbery.) This missing chapter was published separately in 1980 as "The Anti-Muffins". In 1997, the hardcover publisher of L'Engle's novels from 1962 on, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, issued a new edition of "Meet the
", as the name implies, is the family's first appearance in terms of publication date, a short, later book, "The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas" (1964), takes place five years earlier. Another short Christmas story about the Austins, "", takes place about a year before "Meet the Austins". "A Full House" was first published as a short story in two of L'Engle's collections, and then issued as a picture book in 1999. "Meet the Austins