I LOVED(!!!!) this book. It was written by a true master and is an amazing journey through the transitional stage that is being a 12 year old. I love how it shows the dark side of the fairy tales we grew up with. I'll admit that it took me almost a year to finally decide to actually read BOLT. Right now I am rereading it because I think that they are some parallels between BOLT and the new movie Coraline. Both involve an evil being that lives off of children's souls/lives. Also they both deal with alternate realities and with what seems real versus what IS real.
If anyone else can draw similar conclusions, please let me know. This is going to bug me until I can solve this 'mystery'. So if anyone knows of a fairy tale or folk tale that has the same general plot line, it would shed some major light.
thanks!!