When Horatio takes on a dangerous new job, he needs the help of Tilly Pages, a uniquely gifted bookwanderer. Aboard the Quip, Milo lives and works with his uncle, Horatio, a book smuggler who trades in rare books.

Since he was six years old, Milo has lived on board the Sesquipedalian, or “Quip,” a magical train that uses the power of imagination to travel through both stories and the real world. Perfect for fans of Inkheart and The Land of Stories. series, starring Milo, the book smuggler. The fourth magical adventure in the nationally bestselling Pages & Co. If you love books, you're going to LOVE this book!'-Chris Grabenstein, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mr. Lemoncello would love to go bookwandering at Pages and Co. Black and white decorative elements and silhouettes enhance the pages, and intentional gaps in the mechanics of bookwandering leave plenty of scope for sequels.'Mr. The cozy bookshop, the descriptions of decadent baked goods from its café, and the fun of the bookwandering world, complete with Librarians tasked with maintaining order and fictional integrity, may therefore appeal to readers looking for an indulgent, low-key treat.

However, a mystery involving Tilly’s parents and a copy of A Little Princess add some emotional stakes, and her conviction that beloved book characters are better than troublesome real-life friends will resonate with shy readers. A slow start and long passages of exposition demand readerly persistence, and nostalgia celebrating the magic of books often devolves into sentimentality about a fairly narrow slice of canonical fiction (Percy Jackson and Harry Potter are the only notable concessions to the twenty-first century). After she finds a box of her missing mother’s books and she and an acquaintance are pulled into Anne of Green Gables, her grandparents explain that Tilly comes from a long line of bookwanderers: avid readers whose emotional connection to books enables them to conjure their favorite characters and physically enter the stories (making this British import an Eyre Affair for preteens).

Soon enough, Tilly’s having conversations with Anne (of Green Gables) and Alice (of Wonderland) in the stacks of her grandparents’ cozy bookshop. When Tilly Pages catches her grandmother chatting with Lizzy Bennet and her grandfather letting Sherlock Holmes smoke indoors, she’s pretty sure something weird is going on.

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