The Nowhere Emporium: 1 (Kelpies)

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Education Shed Ltd, Severn House, Severn Bridge, Riverside North, Bewdley, Worcestershire, UK, DY12 1AB In present-day Glasgow, 11-year-old Mirren is dismayed to learn that her mother is being held captive inside the Emporium. When Mirren, her best friend Lukasz and their nemesis Robyn are summoned to the mysterious shop in the dead of night, they enter with trepidation. The children need to work together to rescue Mirren’s mum and defeat the evil magician who is infecting everything with his sinister magic. Meanwhile, they must keep one step ahead of the inky Nightmares, viscous monsters with terrifyingly sharp teeth, which chase them through the labyrinth of rooms. Daniel is our leading boy, a boy who you almost feel is searching for something from the start of the story. He stumbles upon The Nowhere Emporium rather by accident after trying to outrun the bullies. Before he knows it Daniels lonely life has changed into a life of wonders, mystery and well, a lot of hard work. After being taken under the wing of Mr. Sliver, the emporium owner, Daniel is thought how to put his imagination to good use. But he has to use more than that if he is to find Mr. Silver after his disappearance once an old face threatens to destroy everything.

Well. Let me not mislead you. Fun *for me* and stressful for our young hero, whose relationships are...fraught...throughout the book. Does he understand the rules Mr. Silver sets down? Is he doing it right? Are his friends really his friends or are they going to abandon him? Before I start this review, let me first point out something most people have or are likely to notice when reading this book. Yes, you can see that the author was inspired by Harry Potter and The Night Circus. Yes, there are a few similarities between these books and The Nowhere Emporium. Overall, the book was amazing, it was just extraordinary. I’d do anything to be able to feel what I felt when I first started reading it.... Read Full Review Con: would be more interesting if the assistant can write more magical wonders in the book, two good tries and two unsuccessful tries for the entire book. Also, the book should not work for Sharpe guy, but yet, the water room seems to work just fine, too closely resemble The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

It's a story with all the classic elements of a good story: Mystery,magic,friendship and a nasty villain. Recruited as Mr Silver's apprentice, Daniel learns the secrets of the Emporium's vast labyrinth of passageways and rooms -- rooms that contain wonders beyond anything Daniel has ever imagined. The Nowhere Emporium is an enchanted shop which appears at will in any time or place. The proprietor, Daniel Holmes, uses his imagination to create wondrous spaces in the Emporium’s vast interior. Whatever he writes in the enchanted Book of Wonders appears as a room inside the shop, ready to be enjoyed by visiting customers, who will instantly forget about it as soon as they leave. However, a dark force is seeping through the Emporium and Daniel has disappeared. I didn't enjoy this as much as I thought I would. I felt there was lots of missed opportunities to give more details about the wonders within the shop.

Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing -This classic good versus evil fantasy adventure builds on a fascinating idea of a world devoid of colour and joy. But there’s much more to it than that. If you're able to cast aside your comparisons with HP and The Night Circus, then I'm sure you'll really enjoy this book. My favourite character would be Ellie because she cares, she isn’t afraid to speak and she doesn’t take things for granted. The book made me laugh at some parts and I was always so eager to read the next chapter after finishing one. Reading is acomplex skill, requiring coordination of several cognitive processes. To access this particular text, my pupils need the ​ ‘mechanics’ of word reading sorted: decoding, fluency, and more. To fully grasp the text, they also need to know most of the vocabulary. They need to understand the grammar and syntax. They must learn how to connect ideas as we read.

Actually, on second thought, this might turn out to be dangerous – the bad guys would probably try to escape and take over the world! The book was very well-written, fast-paced and had a cast of very interesting characters. The prose and beautiful descriptions also truly brought the Emporium to life for me.I will also say that this book could have been written to be read aloud -- the descriptions have just the right amount of detail to them to be vivid when spoken with a little flair, but not so much that you or a young audience will forget what you were even talking about by the time you get to the end of a paragraph. The language and the pacing are comfortable for speaking, too.