But a green goblin's shrinking spell soon puts them right. The arrival of Dick's anxious face does little to help. Of course, matters get worse when the clumsy Saucepan Man splashes a few drops of a "make things bigger" spell on all of them, and Silky, Jo, Moonface and the Saucepan Man himself find themselves too big to slip back down the hole. When he finally manages to call the local policeman "silly", it is but the work of an angry moment for the Law to tap him into a topsy-turvy boy himself, and he finds himself staying as an upside-down guest of Moonface that night.īut it is landing time for the Land of Spells, and Jo soon finds himself the right way up after a Walking spell Rimminy-Romminy-Reets him back to his feet again. When finally they are chased away by a bad-tempered man after naughtily peeping into his upside-down house and his upside-down old woman, Jo cannot hold back his contempt any longer.
To the growing surprise of the children, everything in this land-as the name suggests-is naturally topsy turvy. It is the work of a greedy moment to insert a Pop biscuit into his eager mouth, and with his tongue still lapping at the delicious sweet honey from within, he finds himself climbing through a huge white cloud at the top of the Tree into the land of Topsy Turvy. Standing at the bottom of the most enormous tree he has ever seen, he is about to embark on a journey so magical that the mere rage of the Angry Pixie-whose privacy he so casually violates, thus suffering the facial consequences of a well hurled kettle of water-or the cascading flow of the remnants of Dame Washalot's dirty washing isn't nearly enough to overcome the loveliness of Silky the Fairy, or the joys of meeting the delightfully deaf Saucepan Man, and the happily beaming round-faced Moonface. forget the food and the shelter, let me live in the Enchanted Wood, amongst the Folk of the Faraway Tree, and let me worship at the roots of the Magic Faraway Tree.įrom the moment Dick arrives at his cousin's little cottage deep in the country, life is never the same again. If ever I were to find myself on a desert island, suffering from deep depression, immense insecurity and utter loneliness, and completely abandoned by the world, never to be rescued. In the case of those who have read the Faraway Tree series, that child may never want to grow up. The Magic Faraway Tree Review by Prabhu Viswanathan (June 19, 2006)
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