The Book of Story Beginnings by Kristin Kladstrup
This book was so so so so so so wonderful! I absolutely loved it. It's a children's novel (which are always the best!) and it starts out with a twelve or thirteen year old boy in the 1800s, Oscar. He finds this book in a locked trunk in the attic, and, because he is a writer, starts several stories in them. One night, he begins a story about a boy who lived in Iowa (him) who looks out his window and sees an ocean. Then he looks out his window and sees one! He gets on a boat and rows away, never to be seen again. Then, over 100 years later, one of his sister's descendants and her parents come to live in Oscar's old house. Lucy is curious about what happened to her great-uncle Oscar, and finds this mysterious Book of Story Beginnings in the bow of an old rowboat. She proceeds to start a story in it, Oscar comes back, and they are transported to this magical world of these stories. They will have to rescue her father (who has been changed into a crow), save a group of orphans, and get themselves out of a kingdom full of cats! It is an amazing book, and I would most definitely recommend it!
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