After their father mysteriously disappears (presumed dead), they acquire a new family who they need to keep their secret from. The you have two sets of siblings who are at loggerheads and my favourite character by far Annipeck who was the cutest bean plus a lot of adventure which makes the reader feel that they have been on too. I liked these similarities because I could even link all her book's characters as descendants of each other and all of them fitted together to almost make one story. Can Mafalda find a way through a seemingly dark future and still go to school, play football and look after her beloved cat? But when their mutual little sister Annipeck is kidnapped by a strange Geography teacher, the two sets of siblings must work together to survive the foreign and unearthly worlds the Geography teacher has taken Annipeck to.

It is full of brilliant characters, dialogue, and a daring rescue mission with terrible beasts and a robot assassin.There is magic; the O’Heros have magical powers, as do some other characters, but there are also robots and explanations of wormholes and other dimensions, and some characters are a mixture of both. But, with the fate of two worlds in their hands, will the twins be able to work together for once to defeat Morg and her dark magic? Ross Welford introduces Time Travelling with a Tortoise, the sequel to Time Travelling with a Hamster, and a whole new time travel adventure! This book is chock full of illustrations that bring the human earflings and their out of this world adventure to life. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an incredible sword-fighter, dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking hero who ever lived.

But through the course of this lovely book we see them grow and change and it really is heart-warming to see. I think it's also worth checking out the print version as well, given the illustrations interspersed throughout the story.And at the heart of this modern fantasy a very modern message: that those who appear to be worlds apart often have more in common than they assume.

Make sure to put your thinking cap on and spritz some Steri-gas on yourself before you step into this Otherworld. When their little sister is kidnapped, siblings K2 O'Hero and his twin sister Izzabird go on a rescue mission. So I am happy to give it five stars and I highly recommend it as an imaginative, escapist, rollicking adventure not to be missed. There are some great chapter titles, like A Stranger Enters the Story and the Story Gets Stranger Still, that really drew me in.A fantastical story of adventures through alternative worlds and brimming with characters to cheer on - and some to boo! That's the cue for a thrilling adventure for five young children from the same family, though two of them have a mother and a missing father, another two have a father and no mother, and baby Annipeck shares one parent with all of them, as they are variously assisted and chased across different worlds by a robot assassin, a Grimm bounty hunter, a substitute geography teacher who might be a pirate, various robot assistants and a great and terrible beast!

When previously we travelled to fantastical historicalish settings, then this time we get a bit more sci-fi'ish vibes. The first volume of a new series by author and illustrator of the How to Train Your Dragon series is an event. A huge thank you to the publisher for sending me this book before its highly-anticipated release in September, of which I urge everyone with a longing to escape this world, to leap into this one. In The Wizards of Once, Xar was surrounded by sprites and animals and companions, and it became too chaotic.This is done sparingly, and doesn’t intrude on the narrative too much, and it will be interesting to see what bearing will have on other books in the series. Only one of them will inherit the family fortune and so a race is afoot to save the dwindling Petty-Squabble empire and win the love of their parents.