‘Everything You Can Imagine is Real’
High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the loss of his mother. He is angry and he is alone, with only the books on his shelf for company.
But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother he finds that the real world and the fantasy world have begun to meld. The Crooked Man has come, with his mocking smile and his enigmatic words: ‘Welcome, your majesty. All hail the new King.’ And as war rages across Europe, David is violently propelled into a land that is both a construct of his imagination yet frighteningly real, a strange reflection of his own world composed of myths and stories, populated by wolves and worse-than wolves, and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a legendary book . . .
The Book of Lost Things.
http://www.thebookoflostthings.com/
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This was a wonderful new twist on the old fairy tales. While I found the ending a bit ubrupt, the tale was as light as a tale woven of woe could be. It's a great escape into a young boys voyage on becoming a man, and learning about what's important in life -- but in a new ship that we haven't really seen before. An 'Alice in Wonderland' sort of tale, but with David instead.
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