Rebecca's World by Terry Nation

A children's book notable only for being written by Terry Nation of Dr Who and Blake's 7 fame. We're introduced to Rebecca just long enough to learn that she's bored and has broken a vase, when she's whisked off through a telescope by an unnamed and unpleasant little scientist, who then vanishes for the whole book only to pop up and return her to Earth when her adventure is over.

She quickly forms a party with Grisby (green coat, sore feet), Kovak (a crap spy) and Captain 'K' (a crap superhero). They explain that the world is beset by GHOSTS, which can only be repelled by the wood of their native trees. Unfortunately Mr Glister, the villain of the piece along with his long-suffering minions Lurk and Cringer, learned how to make glass and cut down all the forests to build a glass city. The last remaining wood has been made into shelters which Glister charges people to hide inside, and a single stick remains in the hands of Captain K, who uses it to protect people.

Visiting Mr Glister for dinner they steal the map which supposedly points the way to the last tree. There are riddles on the map which guide them past various children's story appropriate hazards - past the Scarepeople, up a stone needle and down the feather-filled middle, past a cave of spider-bats, through a labyrinth controlled by the tongue twister monster, past the National Society for the Furtherance of Bad Habits - a kindly couple who encourage children to lie, and their nail-biting pets - and the Swardlewardle creatures.

On the way they find the last two tweezerbirds, who come in handy later when everyone is captured and Lurk & Cringer cut down and burn the last tree.

An inoffensive tale, but nothing I need to read again.

Discard.