John and his trusty sidekick, an endearing mechanical fox called Malkin, are faced with the terrifying realisation that only one will escape. In the first few pages you are thrust into adventure- we are on board the airship of John Hartman, famous inventor, as it is under attack from an unknown enemy. What a better place the world would be if we all took on board the lessons from this book! It encapsulated everything that I hold dear about children’s literature- an exciting story, characters that you grow to love and a plethora of key themes and lessons which leave you pondering the book for days and weeks to come. Repeatedly, I have been drawn back to writing about the last book I finished. With my ‘Books to Read’ pile growing higher and higher in my new exciting world of reading more, I have been asking myself over the past weeks which book I wanted to begin my blog with.
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