First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2018
Published in this ebook edition in 2018
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Source ISBN: 9780008229870
Ebook Edition © September 2018 ISBN: 9780008229887
Version: 2019-06-10
For my sister Hester, who is made of the same stories as me
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
1. The View From the Gate of a Fairground
2. No One has Proper Adventures in Real Life
3. Other People’s Memories
4. Somewhere Adventures Live
5. Magic, Mischief, Nonsense
6. Trouble Always Starts When You Are Out of Proportion With Who You are Talking to
7. Imaginary Friends
8. A Bit of Nonsense Never Hurt Anyone
9. Read Outside Your Comfort Zone
10. Fictional by Definition
11. Try to Make a Little More Space For the Impossible to Happen
12. At Active Imagination
13. The Story is the Thing
14. An Excellent Plot Twist
15. It Just Felt Like the Right Book
16. Welcome to the Underlibrary
17. Legere Est Peregrinari
18. Some Books are Far Safer Than Others
19. Getting Lost in a Good Book
20. The Absolute Safest Books You can Travel Into
21. Time Works Differently in Books
22. An Incredibly Bad Idea
23. This is Why You Should Always Follow the Rules
24. Everything has Tilted on its Axis
25. More Than Neat Plot Devices
26. The Last Page
27. The Ordinances of Bookwandering
28. Stories are For Reading
29. Book Magic is the Only Sort We Have
30. Fairy Tales
31. Curiosity Creates the Very Best Adventures
32. You Can Walk off the End of Any Story
33. A Whole Extra Character
34. The Wrong Place at the Right Time
35. A Bookshop is Like a Map of the World
36. Be Brave and be Kind
37. Readers are so Messy
38. Some Books are Loved and Some are Forgotten
39. How the Story had to End
Epilogue
Keep Reading …
Acknowledgements
Tilly’s Bookshelf
About the Publisher
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