FINISHED:

Wilson, N.D. (2007). 100 cupboards. New York: Random House.

[Henry's parents go missing so he has to move in with his uncle, aunt, and cousins. In the middle of the night, one of the walls in the attic bedroom where Henry is staying begins to crack, revealing a bunch of little built-in doors. Eventually, Henry and his cousin Henrietta find a key in one of the little cupboard doors which opens up the impenetrable door to his grandfather's old room. AND, in grandfather's room is a cupboard door big enough to crawl through - the pair discover that turning a couple of knobs built into the cupboard-filled wall changes where the door in grandfather's room will lead. Liked this one a lot - especially the whole idea of a wall filled with little doors that each open to some other world/dimension: wind and the smell of the forest come through one of the doors, and through another one can be seen yellow walls and the occassional glimpse of a pantleg. Fascinating.]

STARTED:
Wilson, N.D. (2009). Dandelion fire. New York: Random House.

[Moving right on to Book 2 - reading it to see if I deem it worthy to be on the ACL Distinguished Books List for 2009...]

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