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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
In Larry Good and Meredith Good’s The Tree of Ticket Leaves, Meri misses a voyage to England when sudden illness keeps her behind in Virginia. The next morning, she sees a battered tackling dummy stand up and walk away from the football field where he has been discarded. He is British and hopes to reach England, where the canvas shop that made him might repair him. Their route changes when a ticket-shaped leaf tears between their hands and carries them into The Lands, a shifting world where a bouncing question mark named Wut offers to guide them toward the Tree of Ticket Leaves. The tree may provide a route home, but normally friendly paper-flying dummies have begun attacking travelers, and the path to it may take Meri directly through the trouble.
Larry Good and Meredith Good’s The Tree of Ticket Leaves is a wonderful children’s fantasy, and the Goods do an excellent job of making every Land feel like a place a child might invent and then want to visit. I love Sticktight, the talking apple tree whose eleven owingstones give him one turn at speech, because his delight in words is both funny and completely original. Jethro, the enormous buffalo unicorn, is hilarious, especially when his attempt to make sense of phrases produces lines like “Take carries, berries!” The Parliament of Now and Later is brilliantly done because ideas introduced earlier return as real solutions there. The Goods understand how to make imagination useful in the story. Readers who enjoy children’s fantasy with real invention will adore this. Very highly recommended.
