You'd think "disaster strikes during a school trip to a big-river-monikered online retailer's warehouse" would be rejected at the pitch stage. His sister is pretending she doesn’t know him, their teacher disappears, nobody knows how to source food without Alexa… and what’s this about a treasure map? Steve Lenton’s charming black-and-white illustrations complement the chapters beautifully, giving the book a real scribbled-treasure-map feel. 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). I bet this would be a great class read for a Y5 or 6 class - it’s fun and relatable with lots of dilemmas to discuss, including whether some aspects of life might be better without the internet.

He has also written episodes of Coronation Street and Brookside, so you probably know his stories from your TV set. As worrying matters escalate, a treasure map is discovered and then the unthinkable – a stash of gold bullion is found.Letters from Noah and his family are interspersed in this stranded-on-a-desert-isle adventure with all the fixings: gold bars, lighthouse, pet rabbits, and bad guys with a soft spot . also when the teacher just left and then randomly appeared again and then left them straight after on a boat it’s all just quite bizarre. is an interactive self-care activity book for children aged 6+ to colour and doodle their way to happiness, calm and confidence. Maybe it was fate that Noah became trapped in the bus, as he just might be the only one with reasonable ideas.

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. 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. 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! It’s a relief to find Frank Cottrell-Boyce cheering us on with his irrepressible boy narrator in Noah’s Gold [. 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.

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. So accidentally breaking the internet while he’s stowed away on his big sister’s field trip was always going to happen – Noah just hadn’t counted on breaking the internet while marooned on a deserted island with five other children and a teacher who has seemingly vanished. Perhaps I missed it, but it did make me stop and think why it had happened (other than as a natural chapter break). 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 . Told in letters that are mainly written by Noah to his parents in which he shares all about what the children have been up to over the course of five days (and nights), which includes foiling a robbery.

or how to make dinner for six children with one packet of sweets, a few rice crispie sandwiches and a bar of chocolate? He has illustrated two World Book Day titles and regularly appears at literary festivals and live events across the UK. a funny and life-affirming tale about co-operation and resourcefulness, with a Blytonesque hidden-loot subplot thrown in.When his older sister and her class go on a field trip to see the world’s largest warehouse, is Noah “Needed On Journey”? 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. 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?

With a nod to classics like Lord Of The Flies and Treasure Island this is a rip-roaring tale of buried treasure.

Steven lives with his partner Jay and his dog in Crouch End where he dunks endless amounts of biscuits in big red spotty cups of tea whilst listening to Radio 2. Eleven-year-old Noah shouldn’t have even been on the school minibus, the one in which the teacher entered the wrong details into the SatNav and now he and the five other students, including his sister, who won’t admit she knows him, are stranded on a deserted island. The minibus is dead after falling off a cliff, with their packed lunches, and their teacher has gone missing after trying to get help. The encouraging and simple activities and exercises tackle anxiety, sadness and stress; children will enjoy using their creativity to combat negative feelings, work out why they feel worried and how to put stress back in its place through writing, colouring, doodling and drawing. 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.