This is one of many series about books coming to life - either going into a book or characters coming out of the book. In this book, the main character I chose this as a read-aloud without reading it ahead of time. It is a lovely story and very imaginative, but it is tricky as a read aloud because some of the words were quite advanced for my students. I found myself reading ahead so I could figure out what to skip. There's a lot of description of people and places that causes my students to tune out. Once I got that figured out everyone became much more engaged in listening to the story.
p. 108
...so many out-of-the way things happened to me that I began to think that very few things are indeed really impossible. I know a woman - who spoke a lot of nonsense most of the time, it has to be said - but she once told me that she sometimes believe as many as six impossible things a day and all before breakfast! And so nowadays I try to make a little more space for the impossible to happen.
p. 157
"Oh Tilly. To my eternal sadness, we are not magical at all; we're just lucky enough to be able to use the natural magic of books and reading. It exists for everyone, but some of us can exert a little more control over it...."
p. 177
Bookwandering if the ability to travel inside books and only a few readers can do it/ you could say we can read a bit harder than most people. Something tips us over from visiting the books purely inside our imagination to being physically transported there. We still don't know precisely how it happens, and why bookwandering magic affect s some people and not others. We think any reader probably has the potential to do it, but perhaps predictably there are very high numbers of booksellers a or librarians, as book wanderers almost always have a very special or particular relationship with books and reading.
p. 178
The Underlibrary exists to protect readers, and our stories, we have important rules in place to help do this. As I'm sure you can imagine, some books are far safer than others to explore, and we've had some pretty close calls in the past when people have been pulled through all sorts of unsavory characters when their abilities awoke.
p. 193 Books can change minds and change worlds, open doors and open minds, and plant seeds that can grow into magical or even terrifying things. Stories are things to be loved and respected at the same time; never underestimate the power of them. It's why books are often casualties of censorship; those who ban or burn books are those who are scared of what can be found among their pages. But imagine what might happen if those people also knew there was a way to permanently damage those stories; it's why we are so secretive. What we do could be put to such terrible use in the wrong hands'.
p. 207 Book wandering is only possible in bookshops and libraries in our experience. It just doesn't seem to work unless you are in a book emporium of some kind; you need the potency of all the different book worlds brought together in one space
Goodreads says:
A magical adventure to delight the imagination. A curl-up-on-the-sofa debut from a uniquely talented author.
Eleven year-old Tilly has lived above her grandparents' bookshop ever since her mother disappeared shortly after she was born. Like the rest of her family, Tilly loves nothing more than to escape into the pages of her favourite stories.
One day Tilly realises that classic children's characters are appearing in the shop through the magic of `book wandering' - crossing over from the page into real life.
With the help of Anne of Green Gables and Alice in Wonderland. Tilly is determined to solve the mystery of what happened to her mother all those years ago, so she bravely steps into the unknown, unsure of what adventure lies ahead and what dangers she may face.
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