At first glance, to the sentimental reader, the title may signify the loneliness of space travel.
If all this sounds like your idea of hell, then perhaps you're precisely the book's target reader – the title might suggest a Utopia, but the set up is more Purgatory than Elysium Fields.
To an adult reader, the title A Boy and a Bear in a Boat instantly brings to mind Yann Martel's Life of Pi, with its boy in a boat with a tiger, and Moacyr Scliar's Max and the Cats, with a Jewish refugee in a boat with a jaguar.
She said it was a "catastrophic editorial error" that lost a lot of readers for the title.
The last thing Pig wants, while attempting to summon his muse, is premature readers, thus the title of the book.
Dinnington editor Ben Green, in telling readers of the title's demise, thanked advertisers for "their constant support, through some pretty tough times for all of us".
Their tenureship of the Telegraph has been controversial, partly because they have cut jobs, but their earlier stewardship of the Scotsman, a revered institution, was positively incendiary, as readers abandoned the title in droves.
For most readers, meeting the title character of Bram Stoker's book is usually as much of a surprise as it is for Jonathan Harker, the Victorian estate agent who gets it in the neck in the story's first strophe.
When a cookbook, "Deceptively Delicious" by Jessica Seinfeld, became popular, Amazon let readers viewing the title online know there was a book promoting a similar concept, called "The Sneaky Chef," and its sales took off as well.
Wired published stories from female founders who experienced bias, reminding readers with the title "This Is What Tech's Ugly Gender Problem Really Looks Like".
