This is a postive book about a librarian, Joan Bright, who is helpful to the children as well as being open to new ideas. However her replacement (and one of the obvious bad guys of the story)Miss Carr is almost a cliche of all that is bad about some librarians and some of the cliches about librari...
This book was such a great adventure tale, full of imagination, creativity, and a kind of surrealist beauty. My nephew loved the adventure, my niece loved the quest for knowledge (what is at the edge of the world? Is there even an edge at all?), and I loved the vocabulary, the creativity of the ar...