![]() ![]() Every sentence seemed to be building up to something else - not a foreshadowing really, just an intent, I guess is the best word. ![]() There was a new character or a change of tone or other surprise on almost every page. At first it appears to be a pastiche of Narnia and Oz and Alice and the Edward Eager books, with some Little House on the Prairie farming practices thrown in to add realism. ![]() For certainly up here on the top of the world where the air was so clear and the sound of a bell so clean and pure and such people as the Scarecrow to be driving home with he would find what he had lost.This was one of the most careful readings I’ve had to do of any book I've finished over the last few years. I’d just started reading this and got knocked down by this sentence: The Boy, peering ahead into the darkness, knew that he had come to the right country. ![]()
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