Pages & Co. Bookwandering Adventures – Volume One by Anna James

Author:Anna James
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

here is Jack? What’s happened?’ Tilly said, panicked.

‘Maybe it’s disappeared because Jack came through into the new book with us?’ Oskar suggested. ‘And when the crack vanished he couldn’t get home?’

‘A crack that vanished?’ Marcel repeated.

‘Yes, it was a big old crack in the sky,’ Oskar said. ‘We went through it and we think that’s why we ended up in the wrong book.’

‘You see, you say it was not so bad, but you found yourselves in the wrong book, non?’ Marcel said. ‘And you ended up here? How did you do that? That is not the way it is supposed to work.’

‘We got here through the Endpapers,’ Tilly answered without thinking.

‘But that is not how it should go,’ Colette said, looking intently at Tilly. ‘If a reader goes into the Endpapers they could be lost for a long time. How did you get to here? That is what happens to the fictional people, not you.’

Tilly shrugged and tried to put a convincingly confused look on her face. ‘I don’t know,’ she said. ‘My grandparents said fairy tales have different rules, so isn’t it because of that?’

‘Perhaps,’ Colette said thoughtfully. ‘They are strange places after all. And getting stranger from what we hear. It is not so good to hear that stories are getting lost, and there are cracks in the sky.’

‘We also saw a character seize up and explode, and then a new version of the same person walked in the door,’ Oskar said.

‘And a puddle of nothingness, just in the middle of a field,’ Tilly added.

‘A puddle of what?’ Marcel repeated. ‘I do not understand this word.’

‘I don’t know how to explain it better,’ Tilly said. ‘It was like just … Nothing. A black hole. And Rapunzel said that a prince disappeared into it.’

‘Prince Charming?’ Marcel said. ‘When was this?’

‘No, a different prince. We were with Prince Charming,’ Tilly said.

‘Well, not our Prince Charming,’ Oskar chimed in. ‘They’re all called Prince Charming, aren’t they?’

‘He is right,’ Colette said. ‘Many of them are. It is just we had a lost Prince Charming fall into our Endpapers last week. We put him back in his right place, but he said that he was just walking and then suddenly he was here. I wonder—’

‘Something is not right,’ Marcel interrupted. ‘Fairy tales were always dangerous, but this is different. We will write down what you have said for our records, and we will make sure that you get home safely. Where does your father live, Oskar?’

‘We need to go back to the Faery Cabinet first,’ Oskar said. ‘And give Gretchen this book back, and then we can go home. It isn’t far from the bookshop, so we’ll be fine from there. Thank you.’

‘We shall get you a car,’ Marcel said. ‘Follow me.’

Marcel talked continuously about the history of the French Underlibrary as they left the office and walked along a wide corridor. ‘You will see when we come up higher that we are underneath the old site of the National Library, on rue de Richelieu, in the centre of Paris.

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