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A Secret in Time – In Time 4 by Sally Nicholls ill. Rachael Dean

January 18, 2022 By achuka Leave a Comment

ACHUKA Book of the Day 18 Jan 2022

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Highly recommended timeslip adventure series.

This 4 book timeslip middle grade series quietly concluded at the end of last year. All four highly-readable illustrated adventures can be strongly recommended for newly confident readers and are sure to be regularly borrowed from primary school and class library shelves.

In this latest adventure, Alex and Ruby find themselves in the freezing-cold winter of 1947. Food is scarce in the aftermath of the Second World War and life at Applecott House is hard. As Alex and Ruby discover they must solve the mystery of a missing family heirloom to ever have hopes of returning home, their adventure takes them trekking across the snow and treacherous ice on a perilous treasure hunt. Will they make it home and back to the present day or will they be stuck in 1947? Full of action and humour and featuring intricate  black-and-white illustrations throughout.

The earlier three titles are:

An Escape In Time
A Chase In Time
A Christmas In Time

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The cover illustrator, Swiss-based Isabelle Follath, is also on Instagram:
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Extracts from a ReadingZone interview with the author:

Why did you choose to set this adventure in 1947?

The Great Winter of 1947 is such a great bit of history, and it’s not something we really teach children about. I’m also really interested in endings and transitions and what-comes-afters. Some of my favourite children’s books are set just after the war and explore what happens next. There’s a lot of The Minnow on the Say in this book, which is set in the fifties.

Where did you go to research this period?

I read a lot of novels set in this period! A Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden which I loved. Autumn Term by Antonia Forest. Grass in Picadilly by Noel Streatfeild, which was packed with historical detail but horrifically anti-semitic, which was a bit of a shock. I also read some non-fiction texts about the period. And talked to my mum, who was born in 1947. The anecdote about playing ‘queueing’ instead of ‘shopping’ was hers.

Filed Under: BookOfTheDay, Fiction Tagged With: 1940s, fiction, historical, time slip, winter

The Time Traveller and the Tiger by Tania Unsworth

September 21, 2020 By achuka Leave a Comment

Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week 22 Nov 2020

Face to face with the mightiest and most majestic predator in the jungle, Elsie is in awe of the tiger’s beauty. She’s on a mission to have the adventure of a lifetime, save the tiger and change the future.

With echoes of Tom’s Midnight Garden, Tania Unsworth writes about transcendent friendships and conservation in the animal kingdom.  Elsie is not looking forward to the long summer holiday with her creaky, old Uncle John. But then the unimaginable happens as Time unravels and Elsie tumbles back to 1940s India to meet her Uncle John as a young boy on a tiger hunt. Can Elsie stop him from doing what he’s already told her is a wrong he can never right?

The Time Traveller and the Tiger is a multi-layered novel for 9-12 year-olds, rich in adventure, mystery, historical and conservation themes.

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Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: adventure, conservation, friendship, India, jungle, mystery, time slip

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