Smith of Wooten Major & Farmer Giles of Ham Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
	Book Information Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Ballantine Books) Book Type: Paperback Rating: 1 ISBN-13: 124699 - ISBN-10: Publication Date: 3/1969 Pages: 156

"Every 24 years, the Master Cook of Wooten Major bakes a great cake for the Feast of the Good Children... a certain piece of the cake contains a tiny, magic star. It is swallowed by Smith, perhaps the least remarkable child in the village, and from that day on, he is inwardly transformed into someone who can perceive with more than his reason. Like The Hobbit (his story) is first and foremost a good tale, dense and engrossing, full of unexpected turns, worth telling for its own sake. Like The Hobbit, it is both homely and haunting, and in its way, almost literally bewitching. When you have finished it, you will feel wistful, wishful, and for an hour or so, you may even relax your fierce common sense and wonder what it would be like to feel a star in your own shining forehead."
-The New York Times Book Review