Strong Winds series allusion to Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series as well as other works, particularly R.L. Stevenson's "Treasure Island" and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha". Cassandra Jardine, reviewing for "The Daily Telegraph", wrote ""The Salt-Stained Book"... is not just a homage to the Swallows and Amazons stories. Donny and Anna, Jones's fictional characters, live in the contemporary world, escaping social workers, rather than pirates. There's far more emotion than in Ransome's books" but "they share the same confident, risk-taking spirit..." Amanda Craig, reviewing "The Salt-stained Book" for "The Times" "...wasn't sure about the historical framing device that gives the novel
The City of Dreaming Books The City of Dreaming Books The City of Dreaming Books (original title: "Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher") is the fourth novel in the Zamonia series written and illustrated by German author Walter Moers, but the third to be translated into English by John Brownjohn. The German version was released in Autumn 2004, and the English version followed in Autumn 2007. It is followed by two sequels, "The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books" (2011) and "The Castle of Dreaming Books" (TBA). Protagonist Optimus Yarnspinner ("Hildegunst von Mythenmetz" in the German text) is a Lindworm (dinosaur) who inherits his authorial godfather's possessions, including