Review of the Day: Maximillian Fly by Angie Sage

Maximillian FlyBy Angie SageKatherine Tegen Books (an imprint of Harper Collins)$16.99ISBN: 978-0-06-257116-8Ages 10 and upOn shelves June 11th

If you are going to make up a world, be it good or be it bad, I sincerely hope you commit to the bit. Think things through. Work out the details. Plan out the plumbing (so to speak). A poorly realized fictional world can either be painful or a bore (or painfully boring, I suppose). Most are middling. They’ll sport perfectly serviceable locations but...