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The Great Good Thing (Paperback)

by Roderick Townley (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's; New edition edition (1 Sep 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0689837143
  • ISBN-13: 978-0689837142
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 903,477 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Open the book and let Princess Sylvie enter your world and dreams in this imaginative, intriguing and touching fantasy for children. Sylvie is eternally twelve years old and has been a princess for more than 80 years, ever since the novel she lives in was first published. But she longs to break free of the never-ending adventure. It's not that she doesn't like her story - she does - it's great - she's the heroine and it's full of excitement. But the trouble is that it's always exciting in the same way, and although Sylvie loves her storybook friends and family, she's getting bored. Then after many years of neglect the book is opened and, as a new reader gazes down into Chapter One, Sylvie breaks an important rule for all storybook characters - she looks at the Reader. Worse still, she gets to know the Reader, a shy young girl called Claire. And when Claire falls asleep with the book open, Sylvie enters the girl's dreams and discovers a new and exciting world. A world where adventures are rewritten daily, and dark, unpredictable dangers lie in wait - and where Sylvie must achieve one great, good thing to save the lives of everyone she loves.


About the Author

Roderick Townley has written ten books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and literary criticism. He has taught in Chile and worked as an editor in New York. He now lives in Kansas with his wife, poet Wyatt Townley and their two children.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyably imaginative, 28 Nov 2003
What a lovely book. I bought this for my eight year old neice and ended up reading it before I wrapped it! It's an entertaining and humourous tale exploring the lives of a fairy story's characters as they move from page to page playing their roles in the never changing story. Until one day the story does change as the heroine steps out of the book and into the reader's mind...
A wonderful exploration of the world of dreams and the fragility of human life. I hope my neice enjoys it as much as I did!
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