I can see that some readers might find this inaccessible. I loved it! But I wonder if many middle graders would actually love it.Ī really great childrens book. The prose for this middle grade book is surprisingly sophisticated, the humor rather sneaky, and the dialogue ironic and strange. There aren't even any chapters to break it all up, so when you're in, you're in. Don't overthink it either: channel your Inner Rich Orphan and indulge in some dream logic. Masefield doesn't put any distance between Kay, his surreal adventures, and the reader.
Most of all, it is about a treasure hunt! And also righting some old wrongs and outwitting some dastardly witches & wizards. The book features a huge manor house with many secret places, flying, invisibility, ghosts, visiting the lively world undersea (my favorite part), a great fox character, two villainous cats named Blackmalkin & Greymalkin (and Blackmalkin is really the worst, such a suck-up), a profane and delightful old lady who shouldn't drink so much champagne while boasting about her hoodwinkin' piratin' past doing all sorts of unseemly things. Nibbins introduces our protagonist Kay to adventures that begin at the stroke of midnight. This book has a great cat character named Nibbins, a little black cat who reminded me of my own. But I promise you that she's spends most of her life dreaming! And this is a funny, dreamy cat named Digsy:
Funny little cat takes funny little boy on all sorts of funny adventures.
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