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12-year-old Alexa Daley is spending another summer in Bridewell with her father, the Mayor of Lathbury. The book starts by Alexa going on a walk through the streets of Bridewell with her adventurer friend Thomas Warvold. During the stroll, Warvold tells Alexa a fable that he heard on one of his far-off journeys.
This is a book about the Island of Sodor, dealing with its history, geography and industry in far greater depth than could ever be discussed in the Railway Series stories themselves. Most of the background information on the places, people, railways and engines in the Railway Series comes from this book.
In the 1970s series, Mrs Stick is first seen with her husband who drives her to Kirrin Cottage at the beginning; in the book Mr Stick does not make an appearance until he confronts Julian when the latter steals food from the pantry after Mrs Stick refuses to feed the children properly. Aunt Fanny is not ill, but she does leave the children in ...
[3] [4] Publishers Weekly and Tor.com both praised the novel, Tor.com highlighting the character of Amy as one of their favorite parts of the book. [5] [6] SF Signal gave This Book Is Full of Spiders an overwhelmingly positive review, stating that it was "Kevin Smith's Clerks meets H. P. Lovecraft" and that "this exceptional thriller ...
Instead, he reveals most of the answers halfway through the novel, creating a "genuinely exciting race against time". The review also notes that the novel is "considerably less drenched in the hallucinatory than Thompson's Wormwood Trilogy ", but that the supernatural elements at the end of the novel leave it open-ended for the possibility of a ...
There have been efforts to put a select subset of Wikipedia's articles into printed book form. [246] [W 108] Since 2009, tens of thousands of print-on-demand books that reproduced English, German, Russian, and French Wikipedia articles have been produced by the American company Books LLC and by three Mauritian subsidiaries of the German ...
The original trilogy was released in quick succession over an eight-month period in what has been called an innovative "Netflix-inspired strategy". [8]The strategy helped the series' second and third books reach the New York Times Best Seller list and established VanderMeer as "one of the most forward-thinking authors of the decade".
The first book in the series, The Brilliant World of Tom Gates, was published in 2011 and won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, a Red House Children's Book Award and a Waterstones Children's Book Prize. [2] As of 2023 the books have sold more than 14 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 47 languages. [3]