I listened to the audiobook and I think I will continue listening to them (yes I will be continuing with the series). There's a lot of confusion with the lack of explanations/being thrown into the middle of a magical world but I think it actually leant itself well. The characters were amazing and endearing, the writing was great- it was very accessible, without feeling overly simple.

Suzy thinks she's an ordinary girl, but in the middle of the night she hears a strange noise, sees some weird flashes and sooner than she can realise she is SWEPT aboard a train passing through her very own home! Suzy, a physics-loving 11-year-old, wakes up to find a troll laying train tracks through her living room. This was cute, but even had I read it at a young age I don’t think it would have been my cup of tea. Born on Eventide, Morrigan Crow is a 'cursed child', blamed for every misfortune and destined to die on her eleventh birthday. I was a little confused with how the Impossible Places work and this issue—I think—was overshadowed with conflict after conflict Suzy had to handle.However, as the story progressed and became more complicated, additional storylines were created with different side characters having their own side stories.

Two towers locked in a power struggle, a cursed boy trapped in a snowglobe, warrior statues, wormholes and negotiable gravity are just a few things Suzy encounters on her incredible journey. Robot Roz undertakes an unusual ocean journey to save her adopted island home in this third series entry. I had zero interest in the story at the beginning, but as the plot progressed it got more and more interesting. I love how exciting this book is, you never know what will happen next and it makes you want to never put the book down.Being something of a scientist, and deeply inquisitive, Suzy can’t let this opportunity pass and climbs aboard. When Wilmot (a lone troll postie) discovers Suzy aboard the Postal express, he inducts her as member of the postal service. I like that Suzy can hold her ground when she was arguing with the troll and when she took the snow globe from Lady Crepsucular because someone was trapped in it. Bell is a native of south Wales, where he was raised on a diet of Greek mythology, ghost stories and Doctor Who. Do you solemnly swear to uphold the ideals of the Impossible Postal Express, risking life, limb and sanity in the execution of your duty?

I found it funny when Suzy did her physics homework; as when her mum and dad told her to have a break she wouldn't and it said she had finished a hour ago but she just filled the pages up with questions. The description was amazing and it really helped me to create a picture in my head of what it would look like in real life. It’s not every day that a magical train drives through your hallway but that’s what happens to Suzy at the opening of this terrific adventure story. The way that it ended did leave some potential for a sequel but if not for that, readers will be happy knowing that Suzy's adventures will continue.Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. I feel like, if I would bring this book to a Primary School, I would mention that it's for kids that love reading harder and bigger books. With her parents asleep, Suzy joins the troll crew of the train on an adventure that will change the course of her life forever.

The bear was funny, the conductor was great and the postal worker I fell in love with and poor Fletch. The winners of The Farshore Reading for Pleasure Teacher Awards 2023, highlighting the work schools are doing to encourage a love of reading, have.The activities also include reading comprehension questions to support and elevate understanding of the text and to improve reading inference, retrieval and predictive skills, as well as providing opportunities for your group to immerse themselves in P. And there is a teachers resource to accompany this book to help with lesson plans and ideas to help explore the story further - download here. Suzy is smart, brave and caring without being sanctimonious - someone we can all look up to in any dimension. I know my pupils are immersed in the world of the Impossible Place and are already talking about creating their own ideas and adding to the places their postal express could visit next. I love reading middle grade books as an adult but can't help but feel disappointed when there is not a lot of adult humour within it.