Noah's Gold

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How is Noah communicating with his parents when technology doesn’t work and the kids are stuck on an island in the middle of the sea – Letters of course! This is where the book really changes as we see the panic of the children who can't use their phones and have no communication, it shows the element of reliance especially as they then loose the teacher. 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. I accidentally stowed away on a geography trip and got accidentally bus-wrecked with five Year Nines on the island of AranOr.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. p acked 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 love fantasy and all that and I can tell this is viewed for younger people but none of it was adding up. 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.You'd think "disaster strikes during a school trip to a big-river-monikered online retailer's warehouse" would be rejected at the pitch stage. After accidentally stowing away on his big sister’s geography field trip, Noah becomes the hero of the story. Unfortunately, it seems that her teacher’s SatNav is not to be trusted for it’s directed the minibus to an uninhabited island. Steve Lenton’s charming black-and-white illustrations complement the chapters beautifully, giving the book a real scribbled-treasure-map feel.

In Noah's Gold, a school field trip to an online retailer's warehouse (the humorously named Orinoco Company, in a nod to the behemoth online company named after another South American river) goes awry when the satnav attempts to direct them to the Orinoco River, leading the minibus off the coast of Ireland and via ferry to a deserted island. This is a fun book that engages the reader, has amazing illustrations throughout, including a map – who doesn’t love a map in a book!Letters from Noah and his family are interspersed in this stranded-on-a-desert-isle adventure with all the fixings: gold bars, lighthouse, pet rabbits, and bad guys with a soft spot .