I loved this magical little picture book! I‘m only sad I have to return it to the library. I‘m doing all my 2017 #popsugar and #readharder challenges again with picture books this time. This one is “a book set in a hotel” for the #popsugar reading challenge. I wish I could go to this hotel & every other place the two friends visit in this story.

“He patented his vacuum cleaner in 1901 and launched the British Vacuum Cleaner Company to market Puffing Billy, as it was called. It was an impressive horse-drawn red box on wheels, like a fire engine, tended by uniformed men who did the cleaning. The petrol-powered engine sucked dust through several hundred feet of flexible tubes, which could be passed through high windows.”

I‘m reading this one for the #readharder “Read a nonfiction book about technology” category while procrastinating on my actual chores.

This is so fun!!! I love the illustrations and maps too. Yet another way to make my TBR pile explode...

Exactly the kind of book I would have loved as a kid!

When I was a kid I chose books first by the cover, then by the blurb on the back. If it was short, interesting, and had some full page illustrations I would read it. I didn't know I was dyslexic. For a challenge to read a book I would have loved as a child, I found this. I wanted one that existed when I was a kid. The gender ambiguous child hero on the cover would have called out to me then. I'm looking forward to this endless quest book!

"He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. And he's in no position to do any rescuing of his own...he even wishes that someone would come and take him away, but wishes on sheep appear to work no better than wishes on stars."

#popsugar reading challenge to read "a book with a cat on the cover" done right!

Cat in lap? Check! Cat on cover? Check! Is there a bonus if the cat in my lap was adopted from the same used bookstore where I got this book? I adopted her from Twice Sold Tales when she was a tiny kitten... five years later she still loves to snuggle up with a good book! Love my bookish kitty

"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic."
-Sherlock Holmes