"The Great Good Thing" By Roderick Townley and similar items

Listened to once and shelved as part of a huge private collection that was seldom listened to. Tapes are in Very Good condition with slight, if any wear. Case arrived damaged and tapes were transferred to a clamshell case with as much information from original box as possible (front, back and side plus any other information if available). Title: THE GREAT GOOD THING Author: Roderick Townley Read By: Blair Brown Year: 2001 Length: Unabridged Category: Young Adult Fantasy Actual Length Tapes: 3 hrs., 4 min., on 2 tapes Sylvie has been a twelve-year-old princess for more than eighty years, ever since the book she lives in was first printed. She's the heroine, and her story is exciting—but it's always exciting in the same way. That's the trouble. Sylvie has a restless urge to explore, to accomplish a Great Good Thing beyond the margins of her book. This time, when the new face appears, Sylvie breaks the rule of all storybook characters: Never look at the Reader. Worse, she gets to know the reader, a shy young girl named Claire, and when Claire falls asleep with the book open, Sylvie enters her dreams. Claire's subconscious is a surprising and sometimes perilous place. In this new land, Sylvie achieves many Good Things, but the Greatest, like this dazzling book, goes far and deep, beyond even her imaginings.