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Movies Showing Nowhere by Yorick Goldewijk tr. Laura Watkinson

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ACHUKA Book of the Day 28 May 2024

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“It’s breathtakingly good.” The Times
“Moving, thought-provoking and wonderfully imaginative…” BookTrust

On the day Cate came into the world, her mum left it. Her dad is often distant and silent, so she keeps herself entertained with kung fu films, her pet rabbit and her photography. Then one afternoon Cate receives a mysterious invitation to an abandoned cinema, and everything changes.

Soon Cate meets the peculiar Mrs Kano and discovers a most unusual kind of movie screen – the kind that lets you step through it into a memory. So begins a wonder-filled adventure through time that will teach Cate the true meaning of love, loss and learning to let go.

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A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley ill. John Broadley

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ACHUKA Book of the Day 1 Dec 2023

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Acknowledged to be one of the best time travel children’s books, here it is in a lovely reissue with illustrations by John Broadley. Even if you already own a copy you’ll want this one for those illustrations.

When Penelope visits an ancient farmhouse, she finds herself travelling back in time and watching helplessly as tragic events bring danger to her friends and the downfall of Mary, Queen of Scots, whom they are seeking to rescue from prison. Penelope knows the tragic end that awaits the Scottish queen but she can neither change the course of events nor persuade her new family of the hopelessness of their cause . . .

Caught between present and past, Penelope is torn by questions of freedom and fate. To travel in time, Penelope discovers, is to be very much alone. And yet the slow recurrent rhythms of the natural world, beautifully captured by Alison Uttley, also speak of a greater ongoing life that transcends the passage of years.

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Children of Winter by Berlie Doherty

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ACHUKA Book of the Day 8 Nov 2023

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The Haunted Hills [ACHUKA Book of the Day 12 Oct 2022]

“A beautiful writing style and memorable characterisations distinguish Doherty as one of today’s finest writers.” Children’s Books And Their Creators ed. Anita Silvey (1995)

A welcome reissue of this classic children’s novel  (Originally published by Methuen, 1985) that  recreates the time when the tiny village of Eyam in Derbyshire cut itself off from the rest of England in 1666 — with cover illustration by Tamsin Rosewell.

Catherine and her family set out for her grandmother’s house deep in the Derbyshire hills. Sheltering from a storm in an old cruck barn with her younger sister and brother, it becomes strangely familiar to her, and she is drawn back to a time when three children sheltered all winter away from a terrible plague that was devastating their village.

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The Rage of the Sea Witch – The Adventures of Billy Shaman by Roland Chambers

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“A humorous, evocative journey through some fascinating discoveries of the past.” Guardian

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Shaman by name and shaman by nature – Billy just hasn’t found his magic… yet. His selfish, globetrotting parents abandon him for yet another summer in Charles Darwin’s strange, museum-like house, where Billy stumbles across a 200-year-old giant talking tortoise named Charles Darwin by the famous man himself. Charles D, the tortoise, knows every inch of the house and every artefact in it, and he’s keen to help Billy realise his powers and set him on the path to adventure. A beautifully carved Inuit ivory necklace is the first object that whisks him back in time to the shrieking chaos of an Arctic blizzard to meet its rightful owner, a girl called Ahnah, her shape-shifting grandmother, and the mysterious explorer Pytheas.

How Far We’ve Come by Joyce Efia Harmer

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ACHUKA Book of the Day 30 May 2023
Times Children’s Book of the Week 13 May 2023

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“Back to the Future meets Gone With the Wind” The Times
“Both hopeful and heartbreaking, this gripping book turns a searchlight on the changing faces of injustice through time.” Guardian

A debut YA novel of friendship and freedom that crosses continents and centuries, in a timeslip novel exploring the legacy of slavery.

Sometime, me love to dream that me is a human, a proper one, like them white folks is.

Enslaved on a plantation in Barbados, Obah dreams of freedom. As talk of rebellion bubbles up around her in the Big House, she imagines escape. Meeting a strange boy who’s not quite of this world, she decides to put her trust in him. But Jacob is from the twenty-first century. Desperate to give Obah a better life, he takes her back with him. At first it seems like dreams really do come true – until the cracks begin to show and Obah sees that freedom comes at an unimaginable cost…

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The Circle Breakers – The Leap Cycle by Patience Agbabi

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Fourteen-year-old Elle and her friends are going to a not-to-be-missed funfair. But a ride on the Ghost Train takes them further than they ever imagined. They end up in 1880, face-to-face with criminal mastermind, The Grandfather!

To Elle’s surprise, he needs her help. Someone has threatened to reveal The Gift to the media. If that happens, everyone will know that Leaplings can leap through time; no Leapling will be safe. Meanwhile, Millennia’s power at the head of The Vicious Circle grows.

Will Elle work for a villain to save her secret community? Can she and The Infinites crush The Vicious Circle for good?

 

Midwinter Burning by Tanya Landman

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“A thrilling, compelling timeslip novel for 9+ from a Carnegie-winning author, with echoes of Goodnight Mr Tom and Stig of the Dump.” Guardian

Alfie Wright? Alfie Wrong, more like. Alfie has never really fitted in anywhere – he doesn’t have any friends, and even his mum seems embarrassed of him. So when he’s evacuated to a farm in rural Devon run by kind old Aunt Bell and her gentle giant of a son, Alfie can’t believe his luck. The War seems a long way off, and among the cows and pigs and geese Alfie’s happier than he’s ever been – especially when he makes friends with one of the local boys, Snidge. But Snidge, for all his friendliness, is not all he appears. And the mystery that surrounds him seems to be connected to the Midwinter Burning, an annual ritual held at the Standing Stones, high up on the cliffs. Aunt Bell says it’s all just a bit of harmless superstition, but when Snidge goes missing, Alfie finally discovers who his friend really is – and relives the true horror of the legend…

The Sky Over Rebecca by Matthew Fox

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When mysterious footprints appear in the Stockholm snow, ten-year-old Kara must discover where they’ve come from – and who they belong to. They lead Kara to Rebecca, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, and her younger brother Samuel. Kara realises they are refugees – from another time, World War Two – and are trying to find their way home.

The grief and loneliness that Rebecca and Samuel have endured is something Kara can relate to – feeling like you’re always on the outside looking in – and she finds herself compelled to help them. Through her eyes, we rediscover the magic that lies in the world around us, if only we have the courage to look for it.

Kara is a heroine for modern times: fragile but fierce, in this utterly compelling story from a stellar new voice in children’s literature, Matthew Fox.

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Nosy Crow Acquire Timeslip Series by Sally Nicholls & illustrator Brett Helquist

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Children’s author Sally Nicholls and A Series of Unfortunate Events illustrator Brett Helquist are joining forces on a new series with Nosy Crow.

The publisher has acquired the middle-grade books, The Time Seekers, which features a "time-slip adventure". The deal, for world rights in four titles, was done by head of fiction, Kirsty Stansfield, with Jodie Hodges at United Agents. The series is written by Nicholls and will be illustrated by Brett Helquist, the US-based illustrator of A Series of Unfortunate Events (Egmont). The first title will be published in spring 2018.

A Nosy Crow spokesperson said: “The first story is a time-slip adventure set partly in Edwardian times about Alex and Ruby. Staying in their aunt’s house they catch sight of a group of children in a hall mirror, and step back in time to help them solve a mystery, catch an arsonist and eat an awful lot of cake. The fast-paced story is laced with humour, but also poignancy, as our modern day characters realise not all of their friends will survive the war.”

Stansfield said: “We’re so delighted to have Sally on the list, as we’re all big fans of her writing. And we’re excited to pair her with Brett Helquist, who brings a lot of international panache to the series. It’s a dream team."

Nicholls is best known for her debut Ways to Live Forever (Marion Lloyd Books) which won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2007. These are her first books with Nosy Crow.

via Nicholls joins Helquist for 'time-slip adventure' series with Nosy Crow | The Bookseller.

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