Steve Lenton’s charming black-and-white illustrations complement the chapters beautifully, giving the book a real scribbled-treasure-map feel.

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. You do laugh at the children (who won’t believe the potatoes they’ve dug up are real because they don’t have labels on them). When the children discover food and make comparisons to their local food bank we know that this isn’t the world of middle class Enid Blyton youngsters but a world of challenge and change that often is dominated by technology and materialism leaving many without.As worrying matters escalate, a treasure map is discovered and then the unthinkable – a stash of gold bullion is found. Mind you, I guess you'd think the same of "a wartime boy rescues a wartime gorilla and they have a wartime adventure", "a girl wants a fing, but a fing isn't even a thing", or "there's slime", and they somehow got printed. Mindful Kids : An activity book for children who sometimes feel anxious or stressed, by Lily Murray (paperback) 24. The unlikely gang end up on a deserted island, and now they have to band together to try and survive on the island and maybe also fix the internet too (I still don’t quite understand what that bit was all about! p acked 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.

Steven Lenton hails from Cheshire where he spent many a school holiday working in the family Pom-pom Factory, packing poms and designing new products. This wacky, comical, entertaining tale reels its way through to the final rescue involving foil blankets and hot chocolate. It seems that Noah’s managed to break the island’s internet connection, leaving the minibus crew without any phone connection. Frank Cottrell-Boyce has created a brilliantly sympathetic and funny character in Noah, and his insecurity about being the smallest, the youngest, and the person seemingly responsible for everything going wrong makes him a wonderfully relatable hero. However, this being Frank Cottrell Boyce, it's less 'Lord of the Flies', more 'What is Really Treasure (ie.However, instead of going to the Wonder Warehouse they find themselves marooned on an "island in the middle of the sea".