What is the author's style in Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie?

Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a delightful, whimsical tale reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, the Arabian Nights , Frank O. Baum's The Wizard of Oz, and traces of Doctor Seuss. The thousand-and-one motif runs throughout the book, sometimes dropped to 101 and sometimes raised to billion and one. Khalifa in Arabic means "caliph," and the legendary Caliph Haroun-al-Rashid appears frequently in the Arabian Nights. Thus father and son here share his name.