Filled with vividly beautiful descriptions of land and seascapes, this roller-coaster novel quietly maps the changing nature of childhood through time. Overall, this is an enchanting and illuminating story that is laced with enough thrill and heart-stopping adventure that will not only enthrall the young kids but will also intrigue the mature readers too. First came Christopher Edge’s heart-warming The Many Worlds of Albie Bright, exploring quantum physics as a way to tackle grief, and now comes Ross Welford’s ambitious and satisfying debut, which does the same with time travel. El argumento del libro me ha parecido de lo más original, abordando temas muy transcendentes desde una perspectiva muy inocente. 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.

On Al Chaudhury's twelfth birthday his beloved Grandpa Byron gives him a letter from Al's late father. Al follows his father’s instructions, accompanied by the intrepid and eponymous hamster, excellently named Alan Shearer.

Laugh, cry and wonder at this race-against-time story of a boy who travels back to 1984 to prevent a go-kart accident, and save his father's life. It’s said that the singer Cheryl Cole was dropped from the US edition of The X-Factor because audiences had trouble with her accent. Kids love to read and so in addition to our Lovereading expert opinion some of our Lovereading4kids Reader Review Panel were also lucky enough to read and review this title. The science might be a stretch for younger readers at times, but it is about a lot more than the concept of time travel.

However, at its heart is a great story and I will certainly be interested to read more novels by Ross Welford. With a gripping opening that immediately arouses our interest, we learn that Al's dad invented a time machine and is trusting his son to go back in time and save his dad's life. Such a sweet story of how a 12 year old boy - the brilliantly named Albert Einstein Hawking Chaudhury - is left a letter by his Dad who died 4 years earlier giving him details of a time machine he had invented! Having read this with my eleven year old son, I think this is a very impressive debut novel – so self assured is the writing that it is hard to imagine it is, in fact, a first book. Just like Marty McFly, and indeed Albie Bright, Al is destined to discover that while new dimensions of time and space offer novelty or adventure, the bonds of family and love remain constant, wherever you travel.In it Al receives a mission: travel back to 1984 in a secret time machine and save his father's life. It was published in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Costa, [3] Blue Peter, [4] Waterstones, [5] and Branford Boase Awards. The whole story is centered around the boy and his grandfather's relationship through good times and bad times. It also requires lies, theft, setting his school on fire and ignoring philosophical advice from Grandpa Byron.

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. Al, nuestro protagonista, es un chico que tiene pocos amigos y una personalidad algo reservada, pero sin duda es uno de los que más evoluciona a lo largo del libro, desarrollando una personalidad más fuerte y con una mayor confianza en sí mismo. I long for the feeling that life is precious, that I have to cram as much as I can into every sun-drenched day and every frost-filled night; to know that childhood is special because it dies not last forever; to have friends, like Aiden and Roxy, who will not look at me strangely, and then turn away from me when I fail to age like them. You've heard me praise the wonders of Middle Grade fiction and its wonderful authors many a time, and yet it never fails to stun me how much goodness comes out of the books written for this age group. In his letter, he has passed on to his invented time machine to Al and has been asked to use it to go back in time to save the life of his father, when his father was twelve years old and an accident happened to him.Using his Dad’s makeshift time machine – a laptop attached to a tin tub from a garden centre – Al ( accompanied by his pet hamster, Alan Shearer) tries to stop the seemingly inevitable from happening, therefore preventing the death of his father.

Poor Al and his hamster then use the time machine to go back and forth into different periods in the past to see if he can prevent his father’s death. Of course, Al soon discovers that changing the past is not as straightforward as it might first appear. Time Travelling with a Hamster opens with Al, a twelve year old boy, introducing us to his Dad’s time machine.

One who wasn't afraid to dabble in science and theory, ultimately leading to his discovery of time travel. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. Hey guys, so 2018 is almost ending (*cries*) and I still have tons of books that I haven't read yet. I really liked the generational relationship between Al and his grandfather, and the cultural element made this book a lot more interesting too. Do you remember how Marty McFly goes back to the future at the end of Back to the Future to find his family completely altered?