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Noah's Gold

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Frank Cottrell-Boyce is an accomplished, successful and award-winning author and screenwriter. 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 and Millions, his debut children's novel, won the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2004. I think this book is good because the chapters are cleverly made by them actually being letters to Noah’s parents and vice versa. The chapters are also funny because they all start with the menu of what they are going to eat eg. ’teeny tiny smoked fish’. In fact all of the book is in letters or group chats, which I think is really clever and makes me wonder who the narrator is. Is it Eve because she is reading the letters or is it Noah? I haven’t read a book like this before.

Coffee house Caffè Nero has announced the 16-strong shortlist for the inaugural Nero Book Awards, recognising the outstanding books of the past 12...Maybe it was fate that Noah became trapped in the bus, as he just might be the only one with reasonable ideas. Although according to his parents he is also the one who has broken the internet, which is no longer working and they refuse to allow him home until he fixes it.

If you like adventure books like Famous Five and Secret Seven you might like this one too. And actually if you like funny books like David Walliams you might also like it. I hope that there might be more books like this because I enjoyed it so much I read it in three days flat! My favourite character is Mr Merriman, their teacher, who always treats everything like a school trip and does not seem to be bothered that they are stranded on an island in the middle of the sea. After accidentally stowing away on his big sister’s geography field trip, Noah becomes the hero of the story. When the teacher takes them the wrong way, they lose the rest of the class and somehow end up on an uninhabited island. Then the minibus is destroyed and their teacher goes missing. The letters Noah writes home to his parents recount the challenges they face and the actions they take to survive. Add in a treasure hunt and the need to fix the internet and what you end up with is a fast paced, humorous story of survival without the benefits of modern technology. Altogether it is a really funny book. It made me laugh out loud and sometimes my family would ask me what I was laughing at and I’d have to read bits out to them. That’s how funny it is. Dapo Adeola, Tracy Darnton, Joseph Coelho and Chitra Soundar are among the 19 authors and illustrators longlisted for the Inclusive Books for Child...The book raises some questions about the value of and reliance upon mobile phones and the internet. It also mentions the family’s need to use a food bank and the way the parents make it sound as if they’ve won a competition. I thought this was a lovely touch as it’s the first time I’ve come across this in a children’s book but it wasn’t talked about in a doom and gloom kind of way, nor was it glorified. Noah’s Gold is a hilarious story of one young boy who has become trapped on an island with a group of students who are not prepared for being stranded with no food, water, heat, etc. Good job Noah is there.

Frank is also a successful writer of film scripts and was the official scriptwriter for the Opening Ceremony for the 2012 Olympics, playing an important role devising the ceremony with Danny Boyle. He is also a judge for the BBC Radio 2 500 Words competition. You can read a great interview with Frank and one of his fellow judge, Francesca Simon here! The book is illustrated by Steven Lenton and I liked the illustrations because they aren’t too detailed but you can still see what’s going on really well. I loved this unlikely group, who were so much fun to read about and had some great interactions. Noah made such a funny narrator with a lot of honesty that I think so many kids will relate to. The illustrations were so good and complemented the story so well too. This one is definitely an adventure story at it’s heart, and I really enjoyed blasting through it and seeing where it was going to go. Told in letters that are mainly written by Noah to his parents in which he shares all about what the children have been up to over the course of five days (and nights), which includes foiling a robbery. The book will have children giggling out loud.You can find out a bit more about him and his Chitty Chitty Bang Bang triology at uk.chittyfliesagain.com With such a complex plot, with so many threads, it would be so easy for any lesser novelist to lose control of some elements, but Cottrell-Boyce has no such worries and keeps the reader engaged at all times. The humour is laugh out loud funny, with a heart-warming group of characters who develop throughout the story. I loved the overall message here; yes, you miss things if you spend all your time buried in the internet, but it is useful for things as well. And that ending...leading us to a sequel, maybe, Mr Cottrell-Boyce? I do hope so! I'd love to spend some more time with these characters. Noah may be younger than the others, but he worries that they’ll find out the internet breaking might be his fault (seems that this island houses some very important cables). His sister is pretending she doesn’t know him, their teacher disappears, nobody knows how to source food without Alexa… and what’s this about a treasure map?

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