Omg. I loved this so much that the only thing I loved more was dramatically reading it to my little sister.
I read this aloud to my college freshmen in the Inquiry into Monsters class I taught a couple of years ago, and you have never in your life seen such a rapt group of adolescents.
My in-laws have this book and the kid likes to read it when we go to visit. My wife and I were just talking about it maybe 2 hours ago.
I loved this book as a kid and Oliver loves it as well. He reads it to me