This book was a delightful read, light as a fairy tale but with some philosophical thoughts worth pondering as an adult.

I didn't realize till I had the book that is was a sequel to Haroun and the Sea of Stories; however, it read fine on its own.

I especially enjoyed Bear, the dog and Dog, the bear along with literalizations of cliches and other well known ideas. Then there were the no-longer-powerful gods of various pantheons who would get stuck in their old adventures and forget who they were to be currently chasing. It was fun to recognize allusions to stories of Prometheus, Venus and others that I knew and to assume that any I didn't recognize also had a history--maybe to pursue finding it. And those poor Roman gods and goddesses who were homeless because they had no Olympus or Valhalla created for them.

Pure fun.