Pages & Co.: Tilly and the Bookwanderers: Book 1

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Friends should bring out the best in you, not be the same as you. I’m sure you’re someone’s perfect fit.” Meanwhile, the Underwoods are expanding their control over bookwandering – and they still have their sights set on Tilly. Leaving the safety of the bookshop, Tilly heads to America to find the legendary Archivists and save bookwandering…

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Another thing I loved about this book was the setting - a lot of it takes place in a cozy, family owned bookstore. I mean you can imagine it so easy and it makes it that much easier to really get into the story and put yourself in Tilly's space. The ending of this one does leave a lot of unanswered questions and a cliffhanger, but thankfully another book is coming to hopefully shed some light on all of that. Very happy to have discovered this series while reading for a book challenge. Middle grade fantasy is a great way to be swept away, and this is the best example I’ve read since Harry Potter. And this series is also British! Another great reason to read it. 😀🎁 A magical adventure to delight the imagination. A curl-up-on-the-sofa debut from a uniquely talented author. I love thinking about other people reading the books I love, or why someone gave that book as a present - those names and messages are like tiny moments of time travel linking readers from different eras and families and even countries.” She was sure she hadn’t seen their cab swerve in the road to avoid hitting someone, but she was also learning that once you were inside a book anything was possible.”I would have loved this book when I was 9 and 10 years old, despite Alice of Wonderland being in it. This collection of original stories have been written to celebrate 21 years of Goldsboro Books. Wide in scope, beautiful, charming, thrilling and clever, this is the perfect celebration of authors, their stories and 21 years of Goldsboro Books. It is said that Tilly's mother left when she was a baby; A few mentions of divorces & parents not being married when they had a child (Anne is scandalized by this information); A mention of witchcraft/sorcery (by a book character); A couple mentions of wine. because the writer is saying that our dreams and our stories matter. I think it's quite beautiful that you can read the whole book as Alice telling her sister a story. And then Alice's sister is thinking about passing on the story to their future children, because stories last much longer than we do. Our stories are how we will be remembered - so we've got to make sure they are worth telling.”

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This book shows a girl who has a love of books (which is enough on the first basis to draw me in). It was great to see all these characters come alive and the author, Anna James, does a brilliant job at portraying how those characters would speak and act if another person was suddenly part of their story. The book shows the power of reading (and a little extra through the magic of book wandering!). It also shows love to your family and friendships. And then there's the matter of Tilly's mother breaking all the rules and stuff and the villain didn't like all the broken rules and he put her in there. I mean I didn't like the villain at all, he was so predictable but I seemed to agree with him. I mean of all the people to agree with, for me to agree with the villain is another sign that I wasn't going to like it as much as I had wanted to. On the predictability, I predicted every single thing pretty early on so that's another reason I didn't like this.representation: dyslexia, being a child of a non-nuclear family, characters of colour (described as having brown skin.) Thanks so much to Goodreads friend (artist) Laura for telling me more than once about this book and for all her book suggestions to try to help me get out of my latest reading slump. This is basically a book about me...sort of...not really. BUT the main character is called Tilly and she loves books!!!

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I am not sure whether or not I’ll read the rest of the series. This book’s story felt complete in its own way and I felt satisfied when I got to the end of it. Then again, I’d probably enjoy spending more time with these characters. I love Tilly and Oscar. I think it is a good choice that in a book about books to have the character Oscar have dyslexia and show how he often reads audiobooks and that yes they count. I love Amelia and both of Tilly’s grandparents. I like Oscar’s mother too. I appreciate it when older characters in children’s books are written as interesting and fully developed people. There is a scary villain in this story, more frightening than I would have expected in a story for this age group, but I’d have probably taken that more in stride when I was in elementary school than I do now. It’s wonderfully imaginative and the first of a series I plan to continue. There are so many interesting things to explore in this world that I’m sure the series will be great! Immerse yourself in some truly festive magic with this brand-new collection of the finest Christmas stories, prose, songs and poetry from some of the greatest writers in the English language.It felt like all my daydreams (and fever dreams - the Wonderland bits are TRIPPY) had come true; it read like the best fanfiction of children’s classics E V E R 😍😂 every book lover’s dream. The books we love when we’re growing up shape us in a special way, Tilly. The characters in the books we read help us decide who we want to be.” You’re so much like her, Matilda. I don’t want to make you feel like Harry Potter, but you really do have her eyes,’ Amelia said, and Oskar struggled to suppress a giggle.” This is the book of any bibliophile's dream. It is written with the true passion of a reader and with a great understanding of various classics. I'm not quite sure the middle grade age range this is aimed at would have a full understanding of the classic influences and nods throughout, but this adult reader appreciated them all immensely.

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Tilly’s favourite books, especially, are Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Anne if Green Gables. One day Tilly’s favourite book characters appear in the shop and discovers that she can not only converse with them, but can also travel into their worlds. This is through the magic of bookwandering that Tilly holds... and she is not the only one in her family to do this.

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I think it would make for a perfect activity to read this book with fourth and fifth graders and then assign them to write stories putting themselves into their favorite book or another book of their choice. I would have loved doing that at that age. It is fun to think about now too.