Holiday Towns and Doorways
Early in the book, Sally and her ghost dog Zero explore beyond the holiday grove and discover this hidden realm.
What is Dream Town?
Sally realises that her actions triggered the crisis when she forgot to do this to the hidden door.
What is closing the door?
Despite her new title, Sally fears she’s not perfect queen material because she’s made of this.
What is a rag-doll / stitched together with dead leaves?
Zero, the ghost dog, plays this role in the early chapters when Sally opens the hidden door.
What is preventing her from stepping through / grabbing her arm?
After the mysterious door is opened, residents of this town (her home) fall asleep and become coated in sand.
What is Halloween Town?
In Dream Town, Sally meets rag-doll-like people who reveal they are this to her
Who are her parents (Greta and Albert)?
Sally admits she sometimes feels like this rather than a fairy-tale princess, even as Queen of Halloween Town.
What is a heroine of her own story (or just Sally, not a princess)?
Queen Ruby in Valentine’s Town tends to emphasize this about Sally, making her feel uncomfortable.
What is her appearance / being transformed / fitting a queenly image?
Sally travels to multiple other holiday realms trying to find someone awake; one of them is this green-clover-themed town.
What is St. Patrick’s Town?
These fine particles drifting in on the air render the holiday residents unconscious.
What is dream sand?
As the town sleeps and the world goes quiet, Sally paradoxically finds that this unexpected feeling of hers actually brings relief.
What is solitude / freedom from expectations?
The first other holiday world Sally visits after Halloween Town is this town of hearts and sweets.
What is Valentine’s Town?
The strange creature responsible for the mass sleeping has been released from this doorway Sally forgot to close.
Who is the Sandman?
This is the one thing Sally realises she must brew instead of a potion to wake the town — to make this creature sleep, not wake the victims.
What is a sleeping potion for the Sandman?
One of the book’s major themes revealed in these first ten chapters: Sally’s quest to find her true this.
What is her identity?
When the entire town sleeps, Sally realises that trying to wake the residents won’t work; instead, she must do this to stop the crisis.
What is put the Sandman to sleep?