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thestormtrooper
Since: Nov, 2013
AsterSelene
Since: Sep, 2009
CheshireGrin
Since: Nov, 2012
2015-11-03 11:36:00
Could it have been The Great Good Thing by Roderick Townley? It's part of a series called The Sylvie Cycle, followed by Into the Labyrinth and The Constellation of Sylvie and while I'm not totally sure if it has the entering the head of the daughter part, it sounds at least similar to what you're looking for.
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AsterSelene
Since: Sep, 2009

Children's/young-readers' book (I read this in approximately 2004?) about the characters in a book having to playact the entire book every time someone reads it, and the main protagonist eventually has to escape it when the book burns before eventually entering the daughter of the original owner (I think?)'s head and convincing her to rewrite the book from scratch. Had a sequel that I never got to read.
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