- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Puffin Books (8 Jan 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141315261
- ISBN-13: 978-0141315263
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,423,336 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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It is 1942 and Jeremy Crane is living with his grandmother while his parents are away in the forces. Reading an official letter, he discovers that his mother is an undercover agent and is in trouble. Determined to rescue her, the young boy makes his way to France to rescue her from the Gestapo.
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The first thing Jacob heard, even before he opened his eyes, was the sound of the postman dismounting from his bicycle and propping it against the stone platform upon which his grandfather placed the milk churns, ready for collection by the dairy lorry at half past seven every morning, rain or shine. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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The first thing Jacob heard, even before he opened his eyes, was the sound of the postman dismounting from his bicycle and propping it against the stone platform upon which his grandfather placed the milk churns, ready for collection by the dairy lorry at half past seven every morning, rain or shine. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
As a lifelong W.E. Johns fan I'm interested in World War II children's stories. This one bears a more than passing resemblance to Johns's 'King of the Commandos', where a young English boy gets stranded in Dunkirk and becomes one of a band of child saboteurs in occupied France. That story seemed pretty far-fetched to me, but Booth's is far more so - in fact it teters on the boundary between the far-fetched and the downright silly. That an English boy knowing no French could wander about a small French town, crawling with Germans, and not attract attention, is improbable enough; more so is the idea that he could, at the drop of a chapeau, help the Resistance create mayhem in that town without the Germans taking it out on the locals by shooting hostages wholesale. The town seems to be remarkably well provisioned, too, for rigidly rationed German-occupied France: orange juice? Ice cream? And can you seriously imagine that an English child could successfully guide a wounded RAF officer across several miles of unknown French countryside, bristling with German patrols, purely on the basis of a few oral instructions???
Never mind. The hero has some exciting adventures and so long as one can swallow a whopping dose of improbability, the book is a good read. I wish, though, that authors or editors would get a proper linguist to check books like this before they're published. Anyone who went about in France saying 'Mon oncle est bu' and thinking it means 'My uncle is drunk' would be rumbled in exactly the time it took to produce this outrage. Booth must have failed his GCSE French - and that takes some doing, believe me.
Never mind. The hero has some exciting adventures and so long as one can swallow a whopping dose of improbability, the book is a good read. I wish, though, that authors or editors would get a proper linguist to check books like this before they're published. Anyone who went about in France saying 'Mon oncle est bu' and thinking it means 'My uncle is drunk' would be rumbled in exactly the time it took to produce this outrage. Booth must have failed his GCSE French - and that takes some doing, believe me.
I thought it was pretty exciting - I read it to see if it was any good for my son (10 years old). I don't think he has read any war books. I think he will need to be persuaded to try it - no high tech gadgets. I agree the plot is farfetched but as fantasy it is great and the historical references may trigger a deeper interest in that period.
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Exciting read
26 Aug 2005
This book has some exciting parts that deserve repeated reading. However, the story could have been longer to delve more deeply into the protagonist's background.
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