Pages & Co: Tilly and the Bookwanderers

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Pages & Co: Tilly and the Bookwanderers
Anna James

A captivating, curl-up-on-the-sofa debut about the magic of books and the power of the imagination. Since her mother’s disappearance, eleven-year-old Tilly has found comfort in stories at Pages & Co., her grandparents’ bookshop. But when her favourite characters, Anne of Green Gables and Alice from Wonderland, appear in the shop, Tilly’s adventures become very real. Not only can she follow Anne and Alice into their thrilling worlds, she discovers she can bookwander into any story she chooses.Tilly’s new ability could even help her solve the mystery of what happened to her mother all those years ago. But danger may be lurking on the very next page…

First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2018

Published in this ebook edition in 2018

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Text copyright © Anna James 2018

Illustrations copyright © Paola Escobar 2018

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Source ISBN: 9780008229863

Ebook Edition © September 2018 ISBN: 9780008229887

Version: 2018-09-01

For my sister Hester, who is made of the same stories as me

Contents

Cover (#ua4259d84-4b51-5240-9c53-6ae84bf242d1)

Title Page (#uf3aa4e3a-fec2-53e7-ac0c-6edc8e571814)

Copyright (#uc88fe420-cfd7-5423-b763-9d289494b9e3)

Dedication (#u00c8ec77-5b92-5970-9b57-8a272c465778)

1. The View From the Gate of a Fairground (#u19abc10b-708b-5944-bd31-f56b2fa8cd4e)

2. No One has Proper Adventures in Real Life (#ub0bcd821-a6b9-5c39-bebd-11f63798bf56)

3. Other People’s Memories (#ud97fbc6d-add4-59e5-9fab-0153f83e8129)

4. Somewhere Adventures Live (#u3d212e0f-5df8-589b-8af2-96df3339c95b)

5. Magic, Mischief, Nonsense (#u1f409569-35ac-5b5f-ad16-4e16e8ce8264)

6. Trouble Always Starts When You Are Out of Proportion With Who You are Talking to (#u1deaa8fe-341d-5f69-8fdc-4fda32f351d3)

7. Imaginary Friends (#u1ce030ea-874e-5e95-9af0-8d26376b334f)

8. A Bit of Nonsense Never Hurt Anyone (#uf739c7f3-c216-5ecc-9eea-0538a8e6116b)

9. Read Outside Your Comfort Zone (#uca35bfb5-1541-50d5-ba36-83e8d3b80003)

10. Fictional by Definition (#uc6d3cb2c-9013-5292-a02e-db565cb580ed)

11. Try to Make a Little More Space For the Impossible to Happen (#u2bb9599a-4f03-5a48-be81-f535812aebe9)

12. At Active Imagination (#u05502229-5755-55bc-ac44-fa0449e15f0d)

13. The Story is the Thing (#u7915e666-d23c-5e4f-84f3-bc77863b02ff)

14. An Excellent Plot Twist (#u2136dbf2-524d-57c7-a64b-f4a7e26b0571)

15. It Just Felt Like the Right Book (#u0dd5b764-cbe9-5ea9-97bb-4034b328c85d)

16. Welcome to the Underlibrary (#u9e68b6be-3516-5308-a2ca-d08f96f82ff5)

17. Legere Est Peregrinari (#u70f374a5-2d1e-5567-af0a-6055f58971a3)

18. Some Books are Far Safer Than Others (#u52b2a7f9-19a2-5351-ac09-7d1ef15d16fd)

19. Getting Lost in a Good Book (#u48b12bf5-9c71-5b1c-9d2c-ac5f4b2b0ca1)

20. The Absolute Safest Books You can Travel Into (#u65d76881-b8d4-5524-98e1-1aa548cdf293)

21. Time Works Differently in Books (#u702c2843-688d-5738-a332-da4d26035ee7)

22. An Incredibly Bad Idea (#u70395fa3-05be-5de6-be31-d23d381a6a3c)

23. This is Why You Should Always Follow the Rules (#u17d83f17-5114-5fef-90b6-e11463891987)

24. Everything has Tilted on its Axis (#u69470968-8890-5bef-94c3-40a5bdb6fc73)

25. More Than Neat Plot Devices (#uf59d6b6b-b796-5b1d-a9aa-b18fe3e13602)

26. The Last Page (#u1d423362-2604-57bb-8735-25f7814cba08)

27. The Ordnances of Bookwandering (#u154c21da-2dab-55c0-834b-cd72ccd5a10b)

28. Stories are For Reading (#u597d70d7-a695-58c6-aa77-2913bae6e38f)

29. Book Magic is the Only Sort We Have (#ubde5e3d4-4e6a-56ff-bfcf-b9a3bb2a6f44)

30. Fairy Tales (#u4672469f-8e85-5974-9b48-5e69d1ed65bf)

31. Curiosity Creates the Very Best Adventures (#uf528f011-928b-512c-838c-4db88f5a126b)

32. You Can Walk off the End of Any Story (#ub89f2351-3694-5b26-b3e3-837884d56716)

33. A Whole Extra Character (#ua7858702-f975-585b-9de8-fafd7c4c4613)

34. The Wrong Place at the Right Time (#u6fec14f0-1ee0-517e-b463-13fc84c7d3ca)

35. A Bookshop is Like a Map of the World (#ub81e4774-5b6e-5cac-a675-8d1aeb18becb)

36. Be Brave and be Kind (#u79e67b80-cec5-56d8-bc4b-9868772e9e29)

37. Readers are so Messy (#u992ffd25-2431-5b49-999f-3a0358704e5b)

38. Some Books are Loved and Some are Forgotten (#u160fc4f1-e569-588e-aaba-77ba3e187b64)

39. How the Story had to End (#udc186bc1-17c2-55f4-940c-30a287bb03ae)

Epilogue (#u9fdd6f2c-54c1-560e-9f75-421fa8284883)

Acknowledgements (#u11ff4f20-45ee-54ce-887f-05facdf82d50)

Tilly’s Bookshelf (#u3a8d3c8b-0300-5b51-9a55-454314fa8ce3)

About the Publisher (#u76dc6d52-2a9c-5cfa-9da7-78e582cedcd6)