Tilly and the Map of Stories

A quick enjoyable read - I enjoy this series the more the bookwandering world is fleshed out. I really wish that this series had been around when I was a child. It's so magical and playful! In this third installment, Tilly is desperately trying to find the Archivists so they can right the wrongs that the head of the English Underlibrary are doing. Her grandparents don't believe that the archive - but her mother does. Tilly and her best friend Oskar are secreted out of London to Washington DC by her mother who wants them to follow the clues Tilly has gathered and find the archivists. With the help of her mother's friends; Tilly and Oskar go to the Library of Congress and encounter their biggest adventure ever. They encounter paper show more forests, magic trains, William Shakespeare, and more - but the clock is ticking - will they be able to save the future of bookwandering? Fun and inventive. I can't wait for more in this series! show less

Further in and further up with the Tilly stories! To defeat the Underwood siblings, who want to stop all children from bookwandering, Tilly journeys into the heart of story to find the Lost Archivists.

This is another enjoyable quick read. The idea that Shakespeare and Austen and F Scott Fitzgerald live forever in a secret land made of imagination in the heart of story, but can be found to Save the Day, is fun both as a plot and a metaphor. Shakespeare being so cynical, in a 'oh, bad guys will rise and fall and try to take over, it's just the circle of life', but being re-energised by meeting Tilly and finally sacrificing himself to set all of Story free from control was not the character I was expecting, but it was fun! And Horatio's show more plot to deliver exactly to the spec and give the Underwoods books to destroy that are uniquely loved by them was very clever.

It does leave me worrying, in the first book the Bad Person traps Tilly's mum in a book forever, and in this book Tilly Saves the Day by trapping the Bad People in a book... so you have to be very sure you're on the side of right, and then you're fine to imprison people who might hurt you... show less

In book three of the Pages Co. series bookwanders, Tilly and Oskar are on a quest to find the archivists and save bookwandering. Will they succeed with a handful of mysterious clues and a little help from some fictional friends?
Fans of this series will be waiting for the third book. This is recommended for readers in the fourth through sixth grades. The author creates an inclusive story with a diverse cast of characters and lots of twists, turns and action to captivate the reader. If anyone has ever gotten “lost” in a book they will love this series.