Status Updates From The Book of Lost Things

I'm obsessed with this book so far, and I'm coming out of my reading slump.

And the Crooked Man heard her dreams, because that was where he wandered. His place was the land of the imagination, the world where stories began. The stories were always looking for a way to be told, to be brought to life through books and reading. That was how they crossed over from their world into ours. But with them came the Crooked Man”

After the main character's mother dies from a illness, the Germans begin to bomb the city next to them. Since his mother is dead, the MC is forced to live with his father.