When the annual school science fair comes round, Mr Cartright's class don't get to work on the Soap Factory, the Maggot Farm or the Exploding Custard Tins. To their intense disgust they get the Flour Babies - sweet little six-pound bags of flour that must be cared for at all times.
David doesn't know much about life beyond the walls of his room, except what he reads in his books. Mourning the death of his mother and angry at his father for moving on so quickly, David is pulled into a world next to our own and discovers all the stories he's read have come to life. However, these stories are different. Angrier. Darker. A David makes his way through he world to find the kin…
"This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil."
"I am sure there is magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us."
"Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!"
'It is curious, "he remarked, "but I feel quite warm now, although it is so cold." "That is because you have done a good action," said the Prince.
"If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
"Time is only a kind of Space."
"There is some good in every person if you can find it. It is a teacher's duty to find and develop it."