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Pretzels
Since: Jun, 2015
2019-05-04 13:23:21
ohmygosh. That's actually an easy one for me, and it's nice to see somebody else has read it too. The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles, by Julie Andrews.
LordQuetzal88
Since: May, 2019

Greetings fellow tropers.
I've been looking for this book for five years now. It was a children's book about three children who go on an adventure in a magical land with an old professor as chaperone (I know. Sounds generic. Bear with me).
The book started with the children visiting a zoo. Something happens (maybe plot related, meeting the old man perhaps), and then they go home and sit around the fire with their mother and father. I remember the narrator stating that they loved doing that on cold evenings, as everyone read or did something.
Next I think the old man was introduced if he wasn't in the zoo. Then the children play in a vegetable garden in their backyard and get sent to the magic world, more specifcally, a boat on a river there. On the boat with them is a magic soda fountain which can make any flavor of ice cream or desert. I vividly remember this part and I think it was in the title.
The last thing I remember plotwise is a train going uphill, and maybe gargoyles(?). The book was probably old (1930-1989, 1950s maybe), and I thought it was a Dover Thrift Edition but couldn't find it on their website.
Finally, it seemed like a cross between "The Phantom Tollbooth" and "The Chronicles of Narnia," with lots of both literary and regular puns. HELP!
Edited by LordQuetzal88