Noah's Gold

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There was just the right amount of choice to suit everyone without being overwhelming and I received comments from parents and staff about the quality of books offered compared to previous sales which have always been based around current crazes and well known celebrity authors. Funny, surprising, original, written in texts and letters, with friendly black-and-white illustrations, this is a joyous book about the things that are truly valuable. 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.

Frank's first book, Millions, won the CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2004 and has been shortlisted for a number of awards, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Award 2004. although I did love the plot and ending I found the writing style to not be enjoyable (hence the lower rating). Your words, like your reviews, bring books to life and give them a voice before the front cover is even turned.I love fantasy and all that and I can tell this is viewed for younger people but none of it was adding up. He ends up marooned on an uninhabited island with a bunch of older children, including his annoying sister. It is filled with adventure and characters that are very believable, especially when you realise how much they relied on technology to get by and didn’t know what some natural items were as they didn’t have labels on them. You guys were so fab and Dawn was such a lovely presence in the schools - I will absolutely be in touch next time I'm in your neck of the woods. With no way of knowing when, or if, they’ll be rescued, Noah and his sister’s classmates must learn to work together if they’re going to survive.

In addition to original scripts, Cottrell Boyce has also adapted novels for the screen and written children's fiction, winning the 2004 Carnegie Medal for his debut, Millions, based on his own screenplay for the film of the same name.

The minibus is dead after falling off a cliff, with their packed lunches, and their teacher has gone missing after trying to get help. I can report that it's a brilliant adventure with Frank's trademark humour, and kid-centred storytelling throughout. When Flora and Sylvie's holiday with dad is cancelled, they are determined to discover who or what is responsible. There’s also a gentle message about the value we can find in everyday things when we are forced to put our phones and laptops away, and the firm friendships that take hold in times of uncertainty.

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!Having worked with director Danny Boyle on Millions, Danny asked Frank to be part of the team creating the Opening Ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics. A gorgeous, magical tale with Cottrell-Boyce's brilliant ability to get inside the heads of children and capture them on a page and his deep empathy and humanity. It's frequently laugh-out-loud funny, but apart from the dramatic events that bookend the story, not much actually happens. I was at my last school for 4 years and we had ********* book fairs every term – and every term, I was disappointed by the narrow range of books.

Maybe it was fate that Noah became trapped in the bus, as he just might be the only one with reasonable ideas. His characters don't live in fancy houses or go to smart schools; they live in ex-mining communities (Framed), or deprived Northern towns (Millions) and more often than not come from families who are struggling for money (such as in Noah's Gold where Noah's family's reliance on foodbanks is referenced a number of times). 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. When his older sister and her class go on a field trip to see the world’s largest warehouse, is Noah “Needed On Journey”?Noah accidentally stows away on a geography field trip and then breaks the internet, or so he believes. It seems that Noah’s Gold is like other best-selling, beloved titles from Frank Cottrell-Boyce in that it is hugely readable and thoroughly funny. However, this being Frank Cottrell Boyce, it's less 'Lord of the Flies', more 'What is Really Treasure (ie. But, when he stows away in the back of the school mini-bus, on his sister’s geography field trip to Wonder Warehouse, his ‘skill’ has mammoth repercussions that affect more than just him and his family. By dropping a series of letters, to his parents, into the island’s mail box, Noah explains his plans step by step … but will anyone receive them?