The Great Good Thing

Townley, Roderick

ISBN 10: 0689837143 / ISBN 13: 9780689837142

Published by Simon & Schuster Children's, 1693

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SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. Full Number Line.* Date of Publication: 2003* Publisher: Simon & Schuster.* Binding and cover condition: Soft illustrative card covers. No bumps or rubs. No shelf wear or creases to spine or hinge. AS NEW* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or inscriptions, no visible faults. Seems un-read. AS NEW* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 211 pp. text. ii pp. Advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- 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. So?* This is a FINE AS NEW copy of the 1st./1st. with no shelf or reading wear.*.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Great Good Thing
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's
• Publication Date: 1693
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0689837143
• ISBN 13: 9780689837142
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: y First Edition
• Condition: AS NEW/AS NEW/ND
• Seller catalogs:
  • Magic
  • Fantasy
  • Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction

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Synopsis

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.

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Sylvie has been a twelve-year-old princess for more than eighty years, ever since the book she lives in was first printed. She's the heroine, and her story is exciting—but it's always exciting in the same way. That's the trouble. Sylvie has a restless urge to explore, to accomplish a Great Good Thing beyond the margins of her book. This time, when the new face appears, Sylvie breaks the rule of all storybook characters: Never look at the Reader. Worse, she gets to know the reader, a shy young girl named Claire, and when Claire falls asleep with the book open, Sylvie enters her dreams.

Claire's subconscious is a surprising and sometimes perilous place. In this new land, Sylvie achieves many Good Things, but the Greatest, like this dazzling book, goes far and deep, beyond even her imaginings.