Amazon.co.uk Review
While skiving off from school, Tom and Geoff make an amazing discovery--a strange vehicle that has lain hidden for centuries. It turns out to be a fantastic flying machine that can travel incredible distances and take them wherever they wish. =It can even make them invisible--what a find! The only problem is, how do they keep it a secret?
This award-winning novel (1997 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Smarties Prize) is a fantastic adventure, full of humour, excitement and the kind of adventures children are always dreaming of. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Description
It's a spaceship from the past - can it change the future?
Aquila has been found by boys bunking off a geography field trip. They have no idea where it came from or what it does. But Geoff's discovered that when you sit in it these little coloured lights come on, and if you push one of the big blue oneS . . . WHOOSH!
About the Author
Andrew Norriss, together with Richard Fegen, is the creator and writer of several TV comedy series, notably THE BRITTAS EMPIRE. The team also dramatised Allan Ahlberg's WOOF for Central TV. Andrew won the UKRA Award for MATT'S MILLIONS, and the Whitbread Award and the Smarties Silver Prize for AQUILA. He lives in Hampshire.
