Gain Access To The Bookwanderers (Pages Co., #1) Scripted By Anna James Disseminated As Pamphlet

was a clever and brilliantly woven story that I think children and adults alike will enjoy, . . especially if they are avid readers who secretly would love to be Book Wanderers, I will definitely read more when they come out "You know when you walk into a bookshop and you see all those thousands of books lined

up in front of you That intoxicating feeling of knowing that behind each cover is a different world to explore, like thousands of tiny portals That adrenaline rush just before you open a new book The thrill of being surrounded by fellow book lovers That is what fuels bookwandering, and it comes to life in bookshops.
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I really loved this warm, cozy, imaginative book, It brings to life every child's fantasy of meeting their favorite book characters and being able to step into the fictional world of their favorite books, I think when I was a kid I even tried to WRITE a version of this story although not nearly as well and not nearly as fleshed out.
It was a delightful bookish romp from start to finish and had so many lovely details that will make any literary heart long to visit the world of this book and the books within it is that too meta A cozy, labyrinthine bookshop, warm, lovable characters, some twists and turns which, admittedly, I could mostly see coming, but they still charmed me, lots of delicious tea and sweets, some literary heroines/heros/villains come to life Anne Shirley! Sarah Crew! Alice! Long John Silver!, and a mysterious bookish plot.
Put this in your stack of books for booklovers, my friends, It was a treat!

I will say that I feel like the end got away a little bit which is why I'm giving itrather than.
It felt a smidge infodumpy in the last couple chapters, and some characters came to conclusions without much warning or explanation, But, I don't want that to deter you from reading, It was overall excellent and I loved it!

I am so looking forward to the next books in the series! I love middlegrade fantasies and when a book is set in a bookshop or a library, it's even better.
When I read the blurb about this, I knew that I had to read it but I was not very impressed with this, It's an unpopular opinion and here it goes,

Matilda Pages or lovingly known as Tilly is eleven years old, She lives with her grandparents who own a bookshop called, Pages amp Co, Her mother left when she was just a baby and she knows nothing about her father, She doesn't know the reason her mother left and her grandparents told her that her mother just disappeared one day never to return, She loves reading and her favorite characters are Anne from Anne of Green Gables and Alice from Alice in Wonderland.
When she finds an old box of her mother's books, strange things start to happen, She starts to see Anne and Alice, her favorite book characters come alive along with some other strange characters, She also finds out that she can actually go inside the books with them,

She tells this to a boy from school, Oskar who doesn't believe at first but when he's also whisked into the book with Tilly comes to believe everything.
They both finally confront Tilly's grandparents and the grandparents explain that it is called bookwandering, They also tell her that bookwandering without actually reading the book at the time is a thing unheard of as in Tilly's case and then they explain that Tilly is halffictional so may be that's the reason Tilly is able to bookwander without physically reading the book.
Tilly finds out that her father is none other than the book character from A Little Princess so Sara from A Little Princess is Tilly's half sister.


Tilly and Oskar continue testing Tilly's new abilities and then by accident they stumble upon a different version of A Little Princess, Upon further investigation, they find out that Tilly's mother has been stuck in a different version of A Little Princess and they get her out and they find out that the bad guy is actually a fictional character called, Enoch Chalk.
Tilly's mother meets her family and Enoch disappears and Tilly is getting to know her mother now,

A book filled with book magic I should have loved it but I didn't, First of all, I didn't get into the story until thepage mark, I found the pacing to be very odd, Secondly, I didn't really like any of the characters save for Oskar a bit, I liked Oskar and his questions that everyone else was not asking, But my main problem is that nothing is properly explained, Why does bookwandering happen Bookwandering is the ability to travel inside books and only a few readers can do it you could say we can read harder than most people.
Something tips us over from visiting the books purely inside our imagination to being physically transported there, We still don't know precisely how it happens, and why bookwandering magic affects some people and not others, We think any reader probably has the potential to do it, but perhaps predictably there are very high numbers of booksellers or librarians, as bookwanderers almost always have a very special or particular relationship with books and reading, This is an actual excerpt from the book and this is how the bookwandering is explained or not explained, I should say,

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,

Then there were the grandparents not telling anything to Tilly for eleven long years, This is something I hate in all the middlegrade, YA books where the parents/grandparents keep the MC in dark and I can accept it sometimes if it is explained reasonably but much like anything here, it isn't very convincing.


This book heavily relies on Anne from Anne of Green Gables and Alice from Alice in Wonderland and A Little Princess.
I haven't read Anne of Green Gables or A Little Princess but I have read Alice in Wonderland and didn't much like it especially Alice's character in the book and this was no exception here.
I can't much say about Anne or Sara but I found Alice's character to be very annoying, This was another reason that I probably didn't enjoy it as much as I had wanted to, There was also not a lot of action in this, There was not much time spent on Oskar either,

Look the story had a lot of potential, it's the execution that was not up to the mark for me, I will read the next in the series and see if I want to continue from there or not,

And I have to take down the rating from three to two because I just started reading the second book in the series and all the disappoint from reading the first book came down really hard on me and I just can't justify the rating of three anymore.
Sorry to disappoint anyone but I just had to,

Oh I gave this little bookstars, its a middle grade novel that takes me back to some of my still favorite books to this day , Alice in Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables, Sherlock Holmes makes an appearance and so does Lizzy from Pride and Prejudice,and most importantly A Little Princess.
With the help of Anne and Alice our main character Tilly goes book wondering, She is raised by her grandparents due to her mom being missing , behind a book store they own, The nostalgia of this novel made the read worth it to me, I could just see myself falling in love with this series I have pre ordered thend book already, If you were like me and loved Alice ,Anne , Sara and Dorothy it any of the tales you fell in love with growing up you might love this novel.
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