Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for giving me free access to the digital advanced copy of this book.

Wow. This book was absolutely magical. In typical Catherynne Valente fashion the world building and the writing of this book transports you directly into the book and transforms the words on the page to a picture playing out in front of you. The characters are sweet and playful and everything you need in a middle grade novel. I hope to read more from this world because I just didn't get enough. As always, when it comes to Valente, this is a 5 star read and one that I highly recommend.

I can't even begin to express how absolutely wonderful this book is. While, yes, it's a book geared towards younger readers, it's got something for all ages. I just loved everything about Osmo Unknown and his companions and their journey together through the Eightpenny Woods. Everything about this book just warms my heart.

One of those rare books that you want to tumble into entirely, head to tail, or tattoo yourself in honor of it so that it is always and forever a part of your very being. Valente plays with words and world building with a skill like Terry Pratchett (RIP) and can weave a mythic story that makes you hold your very breath as you read. For those who read it and really *get it,* this will be a book they come to again and again in either re-readings or as a formative building block of their core imagination.

Cat Valente has this marvelous talent of writing book that, rather than feeling like they are for children, instead make me feel like a child. I adored this entire thing and can't wait to read it to my own kiddos.