The heart of why I love this book is that throughout the heart-stopping adventures of the loveable waif Momo, there is a message of hope. The author, Michael Ende, is better known for his other children’s book, Neverending Story, which is also quite good, but I like Momo best of all. I fell in love with the book, despite the fact that when I first went to read it, I assumed I wouldn’t like it at all! It was been out of print in the USA for a few years, but as of August, 2013, was beautifully reprinted by McSweeney’s McMullens as a 40th Anniversary Edition edition. If there was only one children’s book I could put on the list of must-read, yet hardly known, children’s books, it would have to be Momo. “There’s a place like the one you visited in every living soul, but only those who let me take them there can see it, nor can it be seen with ordinary eyes.” By Michael Ende, first published in German 1973
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