Welcome to the Scatterhorn Museum! But don't get too excited - it's a cold and dingy place, crammed full of tatty stuffed animals and junk. Nobody much wants to visit any more, and its days are surely numbered. But when Tom is sent to live here he soon finds there is more to this museum than meets the eye. The animals may be shabby and moth-eaten - but they possess an incredible secret. And when Tom discovers he can go right back to the time of their making, a hundred years earlier, he embarks on a journey full of unimaginable terrors... Join Tom in his breathtaking adventure in and out of time, from an Edwardian ice fair to the wastes of Mongolia, the jungles of India, and beyond....
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By Davina
Format:Hardcover
I bought this for a 10 year old prolific reader, who devours books faster than they can be published, because I saw that it was new in print. I read it before I gave it to him.
It is wonderful - a fantastic, fabulous and magical adventure of a boy, Tom Scatterhorn, who becomes involved in an old, ramshackle, family-owned natural history museum. It quickly becomes apparent that there is more than meets the eye - the animals on display, created by a master taxidermist in the last century, can come alive. Tom finds a portal in the museum, which enables him to travel back and forth in time, between the modern day and the years in which the museum was created, and he becomes an apprentice to the master taxidermist. He finds out that the taxidermist has discovered an "elixir of life". But Tom isn't the only one travelling in time, and there are other, not-so-nice people looking for the rumoured elixir...
It is beautifully written, and very exciting. Highly recommended, I'd say for 9 - 12 year olds. My 10 year old loved it, read it practically in one go, and wants to know when there will be more (it is called "Book 1"). I hope there will be more!
It is wonderful - a fantastic, fabulous and magical adventure of a boy, Tom Scatterhorn, who becomes involved in an old, ramshackle, family-owned natural history museum. It quickly becomes apparent that there is more than meets the eye - the animals on display, created by a master taxidermist in the last century, can come alive. Tom finds a portal in the museum, which enables him to travel back and forth in time, between the modern day and the years in which the museum was created, and he becomes an apprentice to the master taxidermist. He finds out that the taxidermist has discovered an "elixir of life". But Tom isn't the only one travelling in time, and there are other, not-so-nice people looking for the rumoured elixir...
It is beautifully written, and very exciting. Highly recommended, I'd say for 9 - 12 year olds. My 10 year old loved it, read it practically in one go, and wants to know when there will be more (it is called "Book 1"). I hope there will be more!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Really good fantastical adventure for readers 8+. I'm a much older fan and I enjoyed it so much I've ordered the sequel.
23 Sep 2009
By S. Barnes
Format:Paperback
The Scatterhorn Museum is a family legacy, founded in 1906 and handed down from the generation of the adventurous explorer Sir Henry Scatterhorn. It's a run-down, cold and draughty, dingy kind of a place, full of real stuffed animals. Sir Henry's best friend, August, was a first class taxidermist and the animals were all his creation. A few generations on though and the animals are quite tatty and worn - they haven't had much care over the years. Visitors to the musuem are few and far between; any that make it through the door are soon frightened out of the museum by the shabby, moth-eaten animals.
This is the place were young Tom ends up, staying with his eccentric uncle and aunt, while his mum chases off to Mongolia to find his dad who's gone missing on an assignment to find rare beetles. It doesn't take Tom long to find out that there's more to this run-down museum than if first seemed. Quite by accident he discovers some of the museum's old secrets and finds himself on adventures from Edwardian times to the present day, and from Catcher Hall just a short distance away, to jungles in India and more.
A brilliant rip-roaring adventure. I've recommended it for age 8+ readers but it's a bit dark in places so perhaps read it before you give it to a sensitive child at the younger end of the spectrum. Can't wait to read Book 2, The Hidden World.
This is the place were young Tom ends up, staying with his eccentric uncle and aunt, while his mum chases off to Mongolia to find his dad who's gone missing on an assignment to find rare beetles. It doesn't take Tom long to find out that there's more to this run-down museum than if first seemed. Quite by accident he discovers some of the museum's old secrets and finds himself on adventures from Edwardian times to the present day, and from Catcher Hall just a short distance away, to jungles in India and more.
A brilliant rip-roaring adventure. I've recommended it for age 8+ readers but it's a bit dark in places so perhaps read it before you give it to a sensitive child at the younger end of the spectrum. Can't wait to read Book 2, The Hidden World.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
My Y5 Deep See Readers group reviewed this book. This is what they thought: Our reading group chose this book because it looked exciting. You had to be patient, though, for the adventure to get going. This book was really four different stories trying to be one story. We don't think it worked as well as it could have because it didn't decide which of these stories it wanted to be. In part, it was a Narnia type entry to another world, it was part Dr Doolittle talking animals, it was part adventure in India, and it was part save the museum from falling into the wrong hands. If it has a main character that you could empathise with and a story that did not try to pack too many things in, we think this book could have been better.
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