The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

This is a book firmly in the tradition of Narnia, Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland. 12 year old September leaves her normal life for adventures in Fairyland.

The book is easy to read and the languge and the conversational narrator probably means it works even better if you are fortunate enough to have children or young adults to read to. It also questions old conventions, and allthough it doesn't go all postmodern and ironic on the reader, it does question some of the things we accepteded without question from Barrie, Lewis and Carroll. At the same time, the book is anchored deeply in a love for the worlds the author obviously spent time in.

Had I read the book at the right age it would have been my favourite and I would have learned passages by heart. At the tender age of nearly 40 it sent me right back to my childhood and all those hours I spent in Nardia, Middle-Earth and other fairylands.

Also, any book with a half-dragon, half-library named A-L has got to be read.