Eric Wishbone and the Frozen Earth
By Jonathan Oldershaw
Publisher: Little London Press
Published: Jan. 1, 2014
ASIN: B00GQ94CZ8
Amazon Synopsis:
Eric Wishbone's
Head Teacher, Miss Isle, has gone completely bonkers! She wants to take over
the world with mind-controlling ice cream, and has a diabolical plan to get the
ice she needs by blowing up the sun! No-one seems to care but why would they
when they can eat as much
sports-car-rocket-launch-cloud-drifter-with-a-hint-of-toffee ice cream as they could
ever imagine? Eric, his two best friends Freddie Neptune and Bobby Spoon, his
dog called Dracula, and a Solar Bear from
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My Thoughts:
Miss Isle, the
Head Teacher at Eric Wishbone’s school conceives of a plan to make every child
in the school a well-behaved child. Her plan morphs into controlling the town,
then the world. Eric and his two friends Freddie and Bobbie are the only ones
in the world who manage to escape the mind control and it’s up to them to save
the world.
This is a wacky
fantastical tale about three boys saving the world from freezing over when
their head teacher tries to freeze the sun so she can make more
mind-controlling ice cream.
I enjoy reading
many children’s books, and while this one did not particularly appeal to me
because it is wildly unrealistic – bears that live in outer space, ice cream
that tastes like whatever you can imagine, children that can fly through space
without space suits – I think that it will appeal to children in the age group
of 9 to 12 years, Mr. Oldershaw’s target age group.
The writing was
clear and easy to imagine and visualize. The boys sound like real 9 to 12 year-old
boys when they converse with one another. The language in the book is clean and
free from profanity.
I gave Eric Wishbone and the Frozen Earth 3
stars out of 5 for it’s appeal to children.
Thank you to the
author for providing a copy of the book in exchange for a fair and honest
review. A positive opinion was not required. All thoughts are my own.
About the Author:
Since leaving a world of suits and shiny shoes to become a
full time writer, I have written plays, short stories, poems and even a
pantomime. I try to be funny at least three times a week (four times if nobody
is looking).My own children provide a third of my inspiration, another third comes from somewhere within, and the final third comes from the silly things going on all around us all of the time.
I live in Silverstone, UK, with my wife, two children and a cat called Coco. Eric Wishbone and the Frozen Earth is my first published book for children (2013) and is part of a series of 'Eric Wishbone' stories for children. The next book in the series is Eric Wishbone and the Catastrophic Consequences and will be available in 2014 ... so watch this space!
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Hello Kathryn,
ReplyDeleteSomething nice has just popped up in my inbox and I wanted to say 'thank you' for taking time to read and review my book. I hope children everywhere will like it!
Best regards,
Jonathan Oldershaw