失物之书《原书引》

In this enchanting novel about a 12-year-old English boy David who is thrust into a realm where eternal stories and fairy tales assume an often gruesome reality. Books are the magic that speak to David whose mother has died at the start of WWII after a long debilitating illness. His father remarries and soon his stepmother is pregnant with yet another interloper who will threaten David's place in his father's life. When a portal to another world opens in time-honored fashion David enters a land of beasts and monsters where he must undertake a quest if he is to earn his way back out.