Noah's Gold

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They get into scrapes together, bake some poisonous cakes, almost ruin their school assembly and finally have a twintastic birthday party. 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. 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. There’s always a buzz of excitement in the air when a new Frank Cottrell-Boyce book hits the shelves and the award-winning author certainly strikes gold with this rip-roaring adventure. 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.Some other great things which feel so Cottrell Boyce are the fact that the geography trip was originally meant to be going to a warehouse, that the grown up (Mr Merriman) was just so clueless, that Noah was earnestly putting letters in a letterbox and believing his parents were replying, that the entire internet was turned off. A geography trip for some year 9's (the nicest year 9's I've ever come across, I have to say, being a school employee for a good number of decades now) and a stowaway younger brother, the title hero Noah, goes wrong and they find themselves stranded in an island, somewhere off the coast of - er, Ireland. I can report that it's a brilliant adventure with Frank's trademark humour, and kid-centred storytelling throughout.

I have even talked the head into a little revamp of the library so that we can display them properly! Framed is and will always be my favourite book, but this is definitely up there in my top FCB books, alongside Cosmic. I found getting into this book quite difficult, instead of chapters it's written in 'letters' addressed to the parents of the boy writing them. While I can't speak for the other examples I just gave (because I haven't read them, and won't read them, so don't even think of asking), Noah's Gold works, thanks in no small part to Frank Cottrell-Boyce's wit.However, instead of going to the Wonder Warehouse they find themselves marooned on an "island in the middle of the sea". He has also written his own picture book Princess Daisy and the Dragon and the Nincompoop Knights' and his new young fiction series Genie and Teeny . With a nod to classics like Lord Of The Flies and Treasure Island this is a rip-roaring tale of buried treasure. 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.

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.

Going into this book I wasn’t quite sure if it would be something I was going to enjoy mainly because it is for school. They would also only drop off a case of books and leave us to run it – it was so lovely to have you on hand to chat to the children and recommend them books, as well as the small (but appreciated!

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. It seems that Noah’s managed to break the island’s internet connection, leaving the minibus crew without any phone connection. 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.

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. 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. On the morning of the trip, Noah makes his sister a fabulous packed lunch and in placing it in the back of the minibus he gets accidentally packed into the luggage.