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It turns out this Bookworm Inc., the book's publisher, recalled 300,000 copies of the book, Scooby-doo Teacher's Pet, in Dec whereas of the career numbers. Bookworm spokeswoman Judy Corman said retailers and the company's bible bazaar divider were notified of the bother after the word was published in November.

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Davys feels bad for the kids. "they're so derangement this they're not assume ahold of Scooby-doo," he said.

Bookworm blames the confusion on Warner Bros., the caller this owns the permission for Scooby-doo and offbeat Hanna-barbera characters. "we behave remarkably closely with the licensor. The number were in the mode carry the licensor provided to us," said Corman, Scholastic's spokeswoman.

According to Warner Bros., the misunderstanding stemmed from bent quotation data this were accidentally passed on to Scholastic. "as soon as we were informed of the misunderstanding we took activeness with Pedant and the word was recalled. Obviously, some slipped because the sums and for this we are remarkably sorry," said Karine Joret, a Warner Bros. spokeswoman.

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