After Hamelin Book

When I first read this book, which was a while ago, I fell completely and stupidly in love with it. It really is a great book for kids to read -- it's a fairly easy read, and slightly silly, but it also has an amazingly fantastic premise, and the world they move through on their journey is so vivid.

As previously mentioned, it's been a long time since I first read it. But I found myself thinking about it, when caught up in insomnia, and finally decided to re-read it.

Going back to it was... oddly comforting. Most of the story was soothingly familiar, while I enjoyed small details I either missed, or forgot about. The prose itself was much richer than I remember; the book employs a lot of rhymes and song lyrics, and they fit together amazingly well.

I won't go into any plot summaries, or about the characters, because I won't do it justice. But if you like stories about dreamworlds, enjoy reading about characters going on a journey together, or just want a book that will enchant you and stay with you for a long time afterward -- I highly recommend it.

This book is so much more than an expansion of the Pied Piper tale, and is an excellent piece of literature in it's own right, and I love it for that.