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it's like peeking inside the head of someone with ADHD, SIMPLIFY already. This novel is full of really intriguing ideas: every ones' imagined world are recorded down on actual maps, you can jump yourself into these maps, you can also get stuck inside the world of this map.
The story itself features Oyster Motel, a young orphan who has been raised in a nunnery and is tired of being an unwanted menace, He journey's into his parent's map to discover a world rife with turmoil and political uprising where he learns to depend upon himself and sees that he is capable of great things.
I think that this idea for a story has the potential to be huge among all audiences, and that Baggott Bode chose to downsize the huge story into a fun children's story.
She does this well and creates a world that all young readers would love to be lost in, I enjoyed the quirky characters and unexpected plot twists, I liked that there were a ton of names that weren't real like Ippy and Hobbs, If you've ever whiled away an afternoon dreaming of another world, then you know that place is real,

Oyster R. Motel has dreamed of another world for almost his whole life,

But that's only understandablehe's been raised in a nunnery, Do you think nuns approve of swinging from the belfry Of raising tadpoles in the holy water Of playing the organ at all hours They do not,

Oyster didn't even know that imaginations could be mapped he barely knew he had an imagination, But then a gust of wind and a distant voice send him on a dizzying ride in a silver bucket, and Oyster finds himself, his own map in hand, in someone else's imaginary worlda place where rivers breathe and sugar snows down from the sky.
Whose world is it And what does it have to do with Oyster's map You'll have to read the book to find out,

Imagine that, This is such a cute story, Has a really nice dose of endearing humor, especially the descriptions used for the characters, It presents as a story about the imagination and the "other" world's one can create when young, But, at heart, it is really a story about being who you are, and realizing where, and by whom, you are truly loved, And within that it's about finding home, and through the journey of the imagination, figuring out where that is, In this case right back in the very place the main character started,

It's also a good story for kids whose explorations and curiosities sometimes cause them struggles or conflicts with their cargeviers, as it shows even though a caregiver may get angry, frustrated, or display a sense of being at wits end, the love and acceptance of who the child truly is, is still there.
Sometimes it takes a journey to get back to it, but the love doesn't go away even admist all ones growing pains,

And finally, I really liked the end, It's not as one might expect, The story did a good job of not negating itself and validateding all the love that the main character started with, He gets what he always wanted and realizes he already had it, : I really like the idea of a person who draws out maps of imaginary worlds, and how people can slip inside these maps to visit their imaginary world.
I thought it was very interesting and kind of makes me wish it actually existed, though I think the space that would hold my maps yes plural would be bursting with them.
I think when you read and daydream a lot you come up with many worlds, and I am certainly no exception,

I like the nuns, and how eventually they chase down the boy who has been living with them to the imaginary world to protect him, It is a cute story with its own quirks, This is an interesting book, We especially enjoyed the first and last few chapters, It's worth the notsointeresting middle bits, It took me awhile to get into this one, since it takes awhile for Oyster the main character to actually escape from his timidity and use the map to go into the fantasy world.
Once there, it gets more interesting, . . until the sheer number of whimsical creatures, places, and humans of various stripes makes it a bit hard to follow, Again, things pick up when Oyster meets the laughably pathetic Vince Vance and takes on evil Dark Mouth, This is domestic comedy fantasy, not high fantasy, and it's fun when the humor works, not so much fun when it falls flat, Middle grade readers will probably like it more than adults, See my complete review at sitelinkJ, S. Webster Mind Voyages. A really good and exciting book, though a little bit slow at first, I really enjoyed the authors writing style, It was a quirky read, Who wouldn't love a book with nuns, a crazy dentist, a map to another world, and a young boy who goes on an adventure, I like to read books that my daughtercan read and enjoy as well, We liked this one and thought it was entertaining, but it wasn't fantastic, The epilogue in this book is one of the loveliest things i've ever read, I can't wait to see Ms, Bag er Mr. Bode at the Southern Festival of Books, GrThroughout Baltimore, children are falling victim to the Awful MTDsMysterious Temporary Disappearances, One minute there, then, poof! Gone, And with another poof, returned, Adults find it quite disconcerting, but Oyster R, Motel, ayearold orphan who lives in a nunnery, longs for the adventure of an MTD, One day, he enters a dusty old shop full of scrolls and discovers the ancient Mapkeeper, charged with recording the Imagined Other Worlds of children, Oyster is pulled into one of them and learns that the disappearances of other children have been bungled attempts to get him into Boneland, the imaginary world that his parents created many years ago.
It has taken on a life of its own, and as a result of the Foul Revolution, his parents are now prisoners of the evil Dark Mouth, Along with his companion Leatherbelly, a timid dachshund, he sets out to find the parents he has never met and to prevent Dark Mouth from using the Slippery Map to slide into the real world.
Through his adventures, he comes to understand the power of unleashed imagination and discovers the true meaning of family, This story does not have the effortless humor and whimsy that made The Anybodies HarperCollins,shine, The cast of characters is confusing, as are all the locations that Oyster must traverse to reach the final destination, and parts of the story drag, Dorman's pencil drawings of the various characters add a light touch it's unfortunate that there's no detailed image of the Slippery Map, with the various locations laid out.
Purchase where Bode has a loyal following, Kim Dare, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA CopyrightReed Business Information, I had previously read the Anybodies series by N, E. Bode at the recommendation of a friend who treasured the first book as a child, I immediately fell in love with Fern and all the wonderful word about her and her adventures, This book isn't about Fern, however, but a young boy named Oyster R, Motel that knows relatively nothing about his past, He lives within a nunnery of silent nuns, that have hilarious names, This was entertaining and fun, I found myself having a hard time getting away wanting to know more about Oyster and discovering a whole new world, .