The Great Good Thing

Name: The Great Good Thing
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SKU: 9781665973052
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By Roderick Townley

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A storybook princess breaks the fourth wall and incites a new kind of adventure in this imaginative middle grade fantasy perfect for fans of Chris Colfer and Gail Carson Levine. Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn’t get to live it very often. Sylvie has... Read More

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The Great Good Thing

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of Roderick Townley's classic fantasy with this stunning new edition, redesigned and ready to charm a whole new generation of readers.

Description

A storybook princess breaks the fourth wall and incites a new kind of adventure in this imaginative middle grade fantasy perfect for fans of Chris Colfer and Gail Carson Levine.

Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn’t get to live it very often.

Sylvie has been a twelve-year-old princess for more than eighty years, ever since the book she lives in was first printed. She’s the heroine, and her story is exciting. But that’s the trouble: it’s always exciting in the same way. So when a new Reader opens the book at long last, Sylvie breaks the cardinal rule of all storybook characters: she looks up. And sets into motion a new story all her own.

Now, Sylvie is in for an adventure beyond any she could have imagined. As her journey takes her from the pages of a book to the landscape of dreams, Sylvie must summon all her courage to save her kingdom, find her way home, and figure out what it really means to do a Great Good Thing.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781665973052

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 February 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Edition: Reissue

Illustration: f-c cvr (coated; fx: spot gloss uv on matte); digital

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 194.0mm

Weight: 156g

Pages: 224

Collections

Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Roderick Townley Young Adult

About the Author

Roderick Townley is a poet, literary critic, and author of children’s books. His Sylvie Cycle series includes The Great Good Thing, a Top Ten Book Sense Pick that Kirkus Reviews called “utterly winning”; Into the Labyrinth, which The New York Times called “a hopping fine read”; and The Constellation of Sylvie. Mr. Townley’s novel Sky was described by VOYA as “one hell of a book.” He has two children, Jesse and Grace, and is married to author Wyatt Townley. Visit him online at RoderickTownley.com.