Product Description

Fantasy. Adventure. Surprise. A tale of growing up and growing wise. It was a strange day. but nothing like the night Corian Griffin met the Electrolux. "I was not certain if the whole world I had fallen into was upside-down and I was right-side-up, or vice versa." Young Corey's secret life began the day his father refused him a cup of coffee. It drew him, again and again, to the coiling dragon on his father's green Chinese box and to the Carnival Surprise of the ice-cream man, Mr. Good. But he had no idea his desires would propel him with a whoosh into the strange, dark closet.or a headlong, terrifying fall and the adventure of a lifetime.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1262319 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Customer Reviews

Stories for Children Magazine 5 Star Review
REVIEWED BY: Wayne S. Walker
This book is classified as fantasy fiction. Young Corian (Corey) Griffin's secret life began the day his father refused him a cup of coffee. After his father has to go away for work to save their home from foreclosure, Corey's growing desires draw him again and again to the coiling dragon on his father's green Chinese box to steal money kept there to buy from Mr. Good the ice cream man, which begins to rot his teeth. After a visit to an eccentric dentist, Corey is nearly caught by his mother and is forced to hide in a closet to eat his ice cream and there, through the power of a supernatural Electrolux vacuum cleaner, he falls headlong into book of photographs. In this hidden world, where everything is a living picture, he meets several strange people and encounters some extraordinary events.

Corey and his new friends go into pictures where a great battle occurs, a huge baby is rampaging in a house, and a being called the Wordsmith creates an amazing tree-machine. They are taken by Kosmo and Fern Kreecher to New Dragenstoy for re-education, where the secret is revealed. In another picture Corey sees The Kid (a scapegoat) upon whose head all the bad pictures are placed before it is sent away. The surreal descriptions are apparently intended to appeal to the young people of today, but the allegorical implications are clear. The book is well written, and I found myself drawn into the story with a motivation to keep on reading so that I could find out what was going to happen next. This kind of work may not appeal to some people, but those who like fantasy should appreciate it. I enjoyed it and hope that it will accomplish its purpose.

great book!!!!!
This is a very good book with funny phrases, good ideas, a clever storyline and a good message. It's a good fantasy book, yet it feels like it could actually happen. I hope it becomes a series. The author is clever in his use of words. He should write and illustrate many more books. I am 11 yrs old and love to read. And I LOVE this book. I recommend it to people (kids and adults) who like fantasy and realistic fiction.

Excellent Reformed Allegory
I highly recommend this book for teenagers, young adults, and adults. It is a thoroughly Christian allegory in the Reformed Protestant tradition (with an embedded classic Van Tillian apologetic). Once I started reading it, I was gripped by the story and could not put it down. The story biblically deals with the problem of sin, the fight against sin (the old man versus the new man), the blindness of the sinful world, the antithesis between Christian's and the world, and concludes with a highly energized defense of the Christian faith. Excellently written!!