AHHH! I just haphazardly found....the best children's book ever (for me at least)! I totally forgot about it yet when I saw it again, I remembered how much I love love LOVED it as a child. Have any of you ever read The Neverending Story by Michael Ende? Maybe you've seen the movie (which doesn't compare at all to the actual novel!). It was seriously for me the first really long book that I read and that I LOVED (but consequently forgotten after all these years-_-) But then again, I've always loved fantasy and alternate reality/world books too. Particularily as a child because I could pretend to be the mischevous main character that entered these dream worlds-I literally thought it would happent to me as well...I was sorely disappointed so to speak.  YAY another book that I'll be purchasing- I don't care if the age range is 9-12.....I think it can be 12+:) 448 pages of fantastical storytelling:)