Summary
Summary of The Old Tobacco Shop
Who it’s for
For readers who love children's fantasies, pirate adventures, and ordinary places that suddenly open onto impossible worlds, Freddie's journey offers magic and surprising grown-ups.
What this book is
The Old Tobacco Shop by William Bowen is a children's fantasy about a boy named Freddie whose encounters in an ordinary shop open the way to strange adventures. Its appeal lies in the leap from familiar streets to a world of magic and pirates, where grown-ups can be as surprising as anything a child imagines.
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Freddie is a little boy with a ready interest in the world around him. A tobacco shop gives that curiosity somewhere to settle. It is an everyday place, meant for grown-up business rather than childhood adventure, yet its people and objects offer more possibilities than its ordinary purpose suggests. In Bowen's story, the distance between looking at something strange and entering a strange world can be very short.
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