Today, I am hosting a stop for Grandad’s Chair by Michael Price. Thanks to ZooLoo’s Book Tours and the author for the gifted ebook to write my review.
Book Blurb
Who could have believed how much trouble an old chair could cause?
From the moment his late grandfather’s chair is delivered to Miles’ home there seems to be magic at work. His long, friendless, school holidays are usually spent daydreaming and watching television. This year is different.
Chairs, people and books have one thing in common – you should not judge them by their covers!
Hidden under the leather covering of the chair he discovers clues to a world beyond his ordinary life in a North Yorkshire town in 1980. Miles is inexorably drawn into a dangerous world of witches, winged pigs and a mysterious tropical island.
Fearing for his life, whilst being hunted by a ferocious enemy, Miles decides that he should leave a record of his exploits. Thank goodness he did.
My Review
Grandad’s Chair is a children’s story that definitely sparks the imagination. I read this cover to cover in one go. I so enjoyed meeting Miles, the little boy at the centre of this vivid adventure.
The chair in question is delivered to Miles’ home it was his late grandad’s. Miles has no idea that this summer won’t be his usual run of the mill one. This is a special chair and one which makes a summer of mystery, danger, and winged pigs!
I can see this book having the power to become the goodnight story for any child! I know I have started reading it to my granddaughter. She is so invested in Miles and isn’t too keen on witches!
It’s a fabulously woven story with a cover that draws you in. My granddaughter loves the pig with wings. This would be a great book to have in primary schools all over the country. It’s one of those books that could entice a child to read more. Lovely storytelling.
Book Links
GoodReads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209945194-grandad-s-chair
Buy Links https://mybook.to/grandadschair-zbt
Author Bio
After an uneventful upbringing in Scarborough North Yorkshire, I went to study Zoology at the University of Leeds in 1977. Upon completing my own education, I immediately set about inflicting what I had learnt on adolescents and young adults. After 13 years in British schools and colleges I set off overseas with my wife and family. I spent 23 years working in International schools. At this point I decided that as I had managed to inspire at least a handful of young people over the years, I should retire whilst I was a Head!
The four years we lived in Jakarta, Indonesia, provided my most memorable experiences. During that time I realized that much of what I had previously accepted to be truths were often merely cultural conventions. This view was reinforced whilst living in other countries, with the outcome that I like to think I am now much more questioning and open minded than when I was young.
The conflicting benefits for the brain between building a working understanding of the world based on experienced ‘truths’ versus being open to new uncertainties that challenge its conceptual model and have to be either assimilated into a changed model, or simply ignored, continue to fascinate me, and influence my thinking and writing. Young minds are particularly interesting in this respect.
Having now reached my dotage I can shamble around our island home in the Hebrides making a nuisance of myself. I have been daydreaming and communicating with words for over 60 years, so I decided that writing stories could be a good way to keep out of trouble whilst sharing my humour and experiences. When not at home or walking my dogs, I can be found on the pier hauling the ropes to secure or release the ferries serving the island community.
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