Noah's Gold

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Steven Lenton is a multi-award-winning illustrator, originally from Cheshire, now working from his studios in Brighton and London with his dog, Big Eared Bob. The friendship group were so heartwarming to read about and there was also some interesting discussions of living without technology too. Your words, like your reviews, bring books to life and give them a voice before the front cover is even turned. Children the world over will be horrified at the idea of having to survive without the Guidance of Google at their fingertips.

Very funny with lots of serious messages about us all being addicted to our phones and the internet woven throughout.Packed with mystery, adventure and laughs, Noah’s Gold is the exciting novel from the bestselling, multi-award-winning author Frank Cottrell-Boyce. I always say he's my favourite author and then I don't read one of his books for a while and I think, surely a children's book author can't be my favourite, and then I read one of his books and I'm once again convinced.

Then they will laugh at the adventures of the children struggling on using only their own wiles and brains: “I don’t know how Henry VIII died. He ends up marooned on an uninhabited island with a bunch of older children, including his annoying sister. But you also feel a great deal of empathy for their situation and their generation who have been brought up reliant on something that, once taken away, leaves them stranded in more than just a physical sense.The minibus is dead after falling off a cliff, with their packed lunches, and their teacher has gone missing after trying to get help. He has illustrated two World Book Day titles and regularly appears at literary festivals and live events across the UK.

Packed with mystery, adventure and laughs , Noah's Gold is the exciting novel from the bestselling, multi-award-winning author of Millions and Cosmic, Frank Cottrell-Boyce. I loved the overall message here; yes, you miss things if you spend all your time buried in the internet, but it is useful for things as well. See: "Have you noticed, by the way, that Eve is always asking questions and then answering them herself before you get a chance? What’s more the pupils must face up to a a carousel of adventures and discoveries, all of which result in their discovery of a stash of gold bullion.Author spun a clever story around our children's use of their phones and what happens when they have to go back and do things in an old fashioned way, ultimately figuring out along the way that it's a fun and adventurous way to go about life. although I did love the plot and ending I found the writing style to not be enjoyable (hence the lower rating). Yesterday a parent came over to tell me how impressed she was by the book fair and that you did a fabulous job of selling the books to the children first. Frank's second novel, Framed, was published in September 2005 and shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Prize. Funny, surprising, original, written in texts and letters, with friendly black-and-white illustrations, this is a joyous book about the things that are truly valuable.