The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkein George MacDonald and young people are bound

and young people are bound to identify with the characters

and the need to separate fairy tale wonder from adult skepticism and disbelief

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Harriet and the moon become fast friends

The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkein George MacDonald and young people are boundIn a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort. Written for J. R. R. Tolkien's own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937. Now recognized as a timeless classic, this introduction to the hobbit Bilbo