I loved this book as a child and found it to be as charming as I remembered. ( )

This is a totally amazing book about how two girls are snooping around in their mom's stuff and find magical things like a pair of 7 league boots and a box that ends up with lost items in it. Really, the box that finds lost things was the only part I remembered well from reading this one in my childhood. There's an entire chapter on using the boots to take a trip to Mexico that now comes across as really, really culturally insensitive where they feed a girl named Pilar cookies and soda which she's never had before. Pilar rides a donkey named Pepe and weaves baskets. However, it was written in the 70s and so gets a pass because magic and how it goes wrong is totally hilarious. A modern classic, really. ( )

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Love love love this book. This was my first book that I read as a child that has stuck with me. ( )

Oh such nostalgic numminess. The very inaccurate school Thanksgiving play unfortunately ruins it for today's kids (unless parents are willing to discuss history w/ their children), but I love everything Chew wrote and am so glad to find the ones that were not avl to me when I was a kid. I love thrift stores! ( )