Cosmic

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But being super-sized height-wise has its advantages: he's the only eleven-year-old to ever ride the G-force defying Cosmic rollercoaster - or be offered the chance to drive a Porsche. With that small, understated sentence Boyce hooks us up with his twelve-year old narrator, Liam, a “great lad. He has illustrated two World Book Day titles and regularly appears at literary festivals and live events across the UK. 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. Cosmic, for its part, pairs the story of a twelve-year-old who looks thirty with ample consideration of the eye of infinity and our place in the universe.

Cottrell Bryce owes a lot to Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and I say this in the best way possible. His books have been shortlisted for a multitude of prizes, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Whitbread Children's Fiction Award (now the Costa Book Award) and the Roald Dahl Funny Prize.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. It's up to me to note books that get stars from major trade publications, and this book has a whopping SIX. Yourself and Bob are much cherished in our booky world and I personally really appreciate everything that you do. I loved the storytelling and the humour, but most of all I loved the space scenes and the description of that experience of seeing the world from far far above.

Sure, sometimes his voice was a little too mature, but it also has that naïve youthfulness that you leave behind before you hit 20. Then, if you’re successful, the ‘Dad’ amongst the children, what if you realise all this role playing is not Cosmic at all, but very scary?Prez has one summer to find ten things about the earth that make it worth saving - but can he do it? Steven Lenton hails from Cheshire where he spent many a school holiday working in the family Pom-pom Factory, packing poms and designing new products. Can you convince the organiser that the children need an adult to attend and thereafter that you can fulfil that role? In nine out of ten occasions they’ll be able to parse what it means when Liam says of chips, “the moment they make contact with your tongue they stop being crisps and become soggies.