Goodreads asked Francesca Forrest:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Francesca Forrest I wanted to go to book worlds a lot more when I was a child; in fact, most of third grade was spent trying to get to the land of Oz--not the MGM studios version of Oz, but the Oz in L. Frank Baum's Oz books. Then in middle school and high school, I used to daydream endlessly about Greensky from Zilpha Keatley Snyder's trilogy of that name. I wanted to glide from branch to branch of the towering trees, and I wanted to sing and dance greetings--in fact, I made up some and for a while used to sing the songs and do the dances. But a lot of the books I've loved since then have featured worlds that aren't really places you'd want to go touristing in. I might want to meet the characters, but I'm not so sure about visiting the places. Maybe China Mieville's Railsea? It was so weird and vivid that I have a really clear picture of it, but I'd love to be able to feel/smell/touch/hear it as well.

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