The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

At first I was just smitten with the title, and imagined what story inside could live up to it. Unsurprisingly, a word-drunk one. After all, September, the thoroughly admirable girl of the title, "liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying." Her story (and the two spectacularly titled ones that complete the trilogy), with their fully-armored vocabulary and knowing engagement with seemingly every classic kids' tale from The Phantom Tollbooth to Narnia, will find rabid fans among the most language-intoxicated of readers, both young and old. (Precocious 10-year-olds and up)