![]() ![]() ![]() And a clever plot device at the end has the family defacing books (for good reason) with the silliest annotations they can think of, thus smuggling in great jokes about Aristotle and maps. The emporium consists of more than a hundred themed rooms that move on a mechanical wheel, a magical conceit that takes the reader anywhere from the Room of Knights (stone walls, chilly) to the Room of Space Adventures (twinkling lights, books hanging on threads). But trouble soon arrives in the shape of the sinister Eliot Pink and his security detail, the Wallups, on the hunt for a valuable Shakespeare manuscript.īishop’s voice is breezy and warm, but the book’s real charm is in its celebration of the imaginative power and tactile pleasures of books. Perkily illustrated, the plot rips along: after winning a competition, Property, Netty and Michael trade their musty bookshop for the feted Montgomery Book Emporium, complete with an aggressive cat known as “the Gunther”. ![]()
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