I quite enjoyed this. It's a refreshing fantasy-adventure tale in that our young, parent-less heroine isn't trying to save the world from the ultimate evil (aren't you getting a little sick of that worn-out plot?) but instead escaping an awful life and having her every wish fulfilled. Until, of course, she realizes that having your every wish fulfilled is never all it's cracked up to be. True, it's a little cheeseball with the moral, but, like I said, I enjoyed it, and I don't doubt that many kiddos will too.

Side note: I honestly thought for a long time that this was a book about a dog named Molly Moon because there's a dog on the cover, but the dog is actually a pug named Petula who (also refreshingly) is pretty much a normal-acting dog and not a talking one.

Additional side note: There's an ice cream shop in Seattle called Molly Moon's that has a dog in its logo. Coincidence? I don't know, but the ice cream there is bomb. ( )

A really fun childrens book. ( )

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I really liked this book because you never knew what was going to happen next. There were lots of suprises, such as when one charachter hypnotizes the other charachter in to believing for a moment that he hypnotized her into imagining the first half of the book just to get her spirits up and make her realize that as bad as her situation is, it could be worse. He does this to make her realize that as bad as things are, they could be worse. I also liked the moral points the book brought up, such as the fact that, if hypnotism existed, although hypnotizing people would certainly be bad, what about hypnotizing them to cure a phobia or make them feel no pain during a surgery.

great just great ( )