There are many more such puns and linguistic jokes. On the way they encounter the Half Bakery, which produces half-baked ideas: “They’re very tasty but they don’t always agree with you.” They have an encounter with the smallest giant in the world, the thinnest fat man and the fattest thin man. This is all as daft as it sounds, but far more entertaining. Together, they race off through the various regions of the Lands Beyond – Expectations, Dictionopolis, the Valley of Sound – on a quest to rescue the princesses Rhyme and Reason from a Castle in the Air. In a few more pages, the no-longer-bored boy makes friends called the Humbug (because he’s a Humbug) and Tock (because he is a dog with a watch on his back – yes, a watchdog). A few pages in, Milo finds himself in a place called the Doldrums, where the local inhabitants tell him about their daily routine:Īt 8 o’clock we get up, and then we spendįrom 9.00 to 9.30 we take our mid-morning nap.įrom 10.30 to 11.30 we take our late morning napįrom 11.30 to 12.00 we bide our time and then eat lunch.Īnd on goes the day until the final entry:įrom 7.00 to 8.00 we take our early evening nap, and then for an hour before we go to bed at 9.00 we waste time.īut I couldn’t dwell on that for long, as Milo moves too quickly. But some things did seem very different to my adult eyes.
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