Time Travelling with a Hamster

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Poor attempts at Geordie accents usually end up as a cross between a Welsh accent and Anglo-Pakistani: there’s an -up-and-down quality to it that is shared by the others. On his 12th birthday, Al Chaudhury gets a letter from his long-dead father about a time machine he has invented. There are just so many good ideas caught up in here, I feel like it would be an amazing read to share between parents and their children. Ich kann diese Geschichte für Jung und auch Alt nur wärmstens empfehlen und finde die Aufmachung vom Coppenrath Verlag mit dem wunderschönen und farblich auf das Cover abgestimmten Buchschnitt in knalligem Gelb einen besonderen Blickfang für jedes Bücherregal. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives.

I’m not sure I’m any less baffled by time travel after reading this, but what a fun adventure of a story. When 11 year-old Malky and his younger brother Seb become the owners of a “Dreaminator”, they are thrust into worlds beyond their wildest imagination.

Pye teaches his son Einstein’s popular reduction of his own theory: “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. The Costa Judges said: “A highly accomplished debut, genuinely enjoyable for both a child reading independently and an adult reading with a child. Overall this is a brilliant story which is very hard to find fault in; it kept me pondering over the mind boggling concept of time travel, which is made about as believable as it ever could be by Ross Welford, for long after I finished the story.

A small village in the wilds of Northumberland is rocked by the disappearance of twelve-year-old Tammy. Albert Einstein Hawking Chaudhury’s dad was thirty nine years old when he died for the first time and twelve when he died for the second time. As a lifelong magic-nerd, I was thrilled when, in 2019, I was admitted as a member of The Magic Circle. Can Al race against time to change the past and the future, while keeping hold of Alan Shearer and not arousing suspicion?

Parents are not usually the focus of books for children – they’re not the ones having the adventures, after all!

But far more drastic than 13 year-old Ethel Leatherhead intended when she tried a combination of untested medicines and a sunbed. The science might be a stretch for younger readers at times, but it is about a lot more than the concept of time travel. The narrative is extremely fascinating and since the boy is of Indian origin, the author has done a great job in arresting the Indian linguistics along with its proper meaning into the story line. When Willa and Manny stumble upon a seemingly perfect world without pollution or conflict, they try desperately to make people in their own troubled world believe them. They both had a strong bond of friendship and trust and is arrested by the author with lots of deep, heart-felt emotions.Al follows his father’s instructions, accompanied by the intrepid and eponymous hamster, excellently named Alan Shearer. Following the death of his father, Al receives a letter informing him of a time travel machine his Dad had created. Even the original 1960s Star Trek, although set in the future, was sparing in its use of time travel. I loved watching magic on TV and when I was a TV producer I made“Max Magic” for Sky TV, starring Max Somerset. His books have been published in 22 or more different languages, so for international librarians, that’s also a plus to be able to offer his books in multiple languages.

One who wasn't afraid to dabble in science and theory, ultimately leading to his discovery of time travel. After all, how much can a few wires, an Apple MacBook, a rusty old tub and a hamster change the world? It's a fast enjoyable read of a boy who develops an expertise in time travel and breaking and entering.Fortunately the many existential twists provoked by this notion and their resolutions are always inventively engineered, and the gripping suspense truly makes time fly. The reader is rooting for Al all the way, as he bravely confronts every possible obstacle in the hope of having his dad back. His family has memories of that Marty and his childhood and this new Marty has none of those memories. In it, Ebeneezer Scrooge is haunted by a ghost who whisks him back in time to witness a Christmas in the past, and then forward to show him a Christmas in the future.