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A review by waywardfancy
Finding Serendipity by Angelica Banks
5.0
Finding Serendipity is a rambunctious adventure that also explores the compulsion of creativity – the magnetic pull, the hard work, the mystery, the beatings, the flights of fancy, the joy and the wonder. And here in lies the magic and gobsmacking cleverness of Angelica Banks (the pen name for not one brilliant writer, but two – Heather Rose and Danielle Woods). They have managed to create a wonderful fantasy adventure chapter book for children with a driving narrative gorgeous world of peppermint forests and oceans and cliffs and even a fantastic arch nemesis in the pirate Captain Mothwood. All this alone would have been enough for a good book. But they make it truly great with the injection of a story about writing. Mind-bendingly self-referential and clever and wonderful!
You see, our character Tuesday McGillycuddy is the daughter of the world’s most famous writer, Serendipity Smith. But no one knows this. When Tuesday finds her mother missing from her writing room, she sits at the typewriter and writes about it. A silver thread appears and carries Tuesday and her dog Baxterr (with a double R) off to the world of Story. There, Tuesday delves into the world of her mother’s adventure books, the world of Vivienne Small.
Throughout this adventure, Tuesday learns about the power of courage, imagination, storytelling and about getting to the end, about finding and losing. This books is an inspiration on so many levels. The details of how the world of story and how our world interacts with the characters there is brilliant. The adventure in the world is rollicking. And I haven’t even mentioned Tuesday’s wonderful wordy father, Dennis. In fact, all characters are rendered with detail and whimsy. The language soothes, delights, is playful and heart-warming.
This book will keep you turning pages, warm your heart, fire your creativity, make you laugh, delight the reader at every plot twist and turn and further imbue the wonder of storytelling to anyone who reads it.
You see, our character Tuesday McGillycuddy is the daughter of the world’s most famous writer, Serendipity Smith. But no one knows this. When Tuesday finds her mother missing from her writing room, she sits at the typewriter and writes about it. A silver thread appears and carries Tuesday and her dog Baxterr (with a double R) off to the world of Story. There, Tuesday delves into the world of her mother’s adventure books, the world of Vivienne Small.
Throughout this adventure, Tuesday learns about the power of courage, imagination, storytelling and about getting to the end, about finding and losing. This books is an inspiration on so many levels. The details of how the world of story and how our world interacts with the characters there is brilliant. The adventure in the world is rollicking. And I haven’t even mentioned Tuesday’s wonderful wordy father, Dennis. In fact, all characters are rendered with detail and whimsy. The language soothes, delights, is playful and heart-warming.
This book will keep you turning pages, warm your heart, fire your creativity, make you laugh, delight the reader at every plot twist and turn and further imbue the wonder of storytelling to anyone who reads it.