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sed9770's review against another edition
5.0
My dad used to read to me every night when I was growing up and this book was the only one I loved so much that I made him immediately start from the top again as soon as we hit the last page. It's super sweet and full of heart and I know it's so hard to find now but it really is worth it if you can get your hands on it!!
misajane79's review against another edition
3.0
A sweet little book about the magic of books--and what happens to the characters when you close the covers. A quick, charming read but nothing I'll return to.
erikars's review against another edition
3.0
This is a children's book and not one that has the depth to stand up to critical reading by an adult, but as a children's book, it was a fun story with enough depth and uncertainty to keep it from being saccharine. If your question is "Should an adult who likes great children's books read this?" the answer is maybe. But if your question is "Should I read this if I am sitting in my child's room and need something to read?" the answer is, "yes, and you'll probably have a pretty good time."
alanahcw's review against another edition
5.0
This is the perfect story. It's so unlike everything I have ever read. I'm in love!
readcover2cover's review against another edition
2.0
A sweet book, but I didn't finish it because it just wasn't interesting enough. I probably would have absolutely loved this book at age 10, but it is clearly meant for that age. I'd probably even enjoy reading it to a kid, but I just skipped to the end after I read the first half because I didn't really care what happened. Oh well! It's been on my to read shelf for years, so at least I finally read it (sort of)!
ambermain90's review against another edition
5.0
I first read this book when I was 11 years old. Reading it 18 years later I can honestly say it’s just as good as an adult. ❤️
rainmisoa's review against another edition
5.0
A cute little story about fictional characters being truly alive!
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thebeardedpoet's review against another edition
5.0
A pure pleasure read. In this book, the characters are actually alive inside a storybook. When the book is closed "back up lights" come on and the characters relax a bit until the next reader comes along. When the reader shows up, they dash to their proper pages and recite their dialogue. The princess Sylvie discovers that she can make a leap from the pages of the book into the dreams of the reader. In this dream-scape she actually meets the reader and becomes her friend. Eventually all the characters from the book must flee from the pages to the reader's mind to escape the fire that has been set to their book. The second half of the book is about what happens in the reader's mind as the characters try to build a new life there. The style of the book is clear, simple, and poetic. I highly recommend this book to either a child or an adult. It's the second time I've read it and loved every minute of it.
linneahedvig's review against another edition
3.0
This book was a fun, meta adventure. A story about a storybook and the characters. They go from book to dream, and even to the real world! It felt crazy and dream-like itself. I'm a little disappointed to see that it's now first a series. I felt like it sustained the short novel form well, but I wanted it to explore the themes more. What are storybook characters? What's the difference between characters in stories and characters in dreams, especially when the story has been lost? What does it mean if a person remembers a story and writes it down, but it's not the same as the original?
raquel_reading_stuff's review against another edition
5.0
Imaginitive, thought-provoking, interesting, and absorbing.
THIS IS A GOOD BOOK.
The plot is centered around a book character who is getting bored with her story- the old-fashioned environment the MC lives in gives the whole book a nice, comfortable feeling. The writing is very well done, from everything from the interesting descriptions of living in a book to the action scenes to the mysterious settings in the dark forest, etc.
It's the concept itself that is so riveting to me: being inside a book. The characters know that they are inside the book, but not in that toy-story type way where they are almost smarter than the Readers/humans. There's an excellent feeling of being in a different world and seeing the world WE live in from a different perspective (namely, from between the covers of a book).
The writing/prose is good enough to be absorbing, funny, mysterious, etc, at all the right times. I found the book extremely enjoyable, and the same goes for the other books in the series (the second of which focuses more on cyberspace and the third of which focuses on OUTER space). I think that Townley has an enormous amount of creativity and is a master of pace and writing- the books are short, but they are wholesome and definitely good reads.
I recommend the series to 10-late teens. There is little or perhaps nothing that is inappropriate, only some eeriness time to time, so older readers may become disinterested.
THIS IS A GOOD BOOK.
The plot is centered around a book character who is getting bored with her story- the old-fashioned environment the MC lives in gives the whole book a nice, comfortable feeling. The writing is very well done, from everything from the interesting descriptions of living in a book to the action scenes to the mysterious settings in the dark forest, etc.
It's the concept itself that is so riveting to me: being inside a book. The characters know that they are inside the book, but not in that toy-story type way where they are almost smarter than the Readers/humans. There's an excellent feeling of being in a different world and seeing the world WE live in from a different perspective (namely, from between the covers of a book).
The writing/prose is good enough to be absorbing, funny, mysterious, etc, at all the right times. I found the book extremely enjoyable, and the same goes for the other books in the series (the second of which focuses more on cyberspace and the third of which focuses on OUTER space). I think that Townley has an enormous amount of creativity and is a master of pace and writing- the books are short, but they are wholesome and definitely good reads.
I recommend the series to 10-late teens. There is little or perhaps nothing that is inappropriate, only some eeriness time to time, so older readers may become disinterested.