![]() ![]() Con is a feisty and assertive girl, who is also often angry and finding herself in conflict or impatient with the others. ![]() I should add at this point that the story is set, I would guess, in the 1950s. Each of the children has their own back-story and their characters are carefully-drawn: Fred is resourceful, a natural leader who the others look to, but he is also a troubled soul, his mother is dead and he longs for the approval of his remote and uptight father. The pilot dies (this is quite gently done, it is not frightening), which means the four children, five year-old Max, his older sister Lila, both Brazilian, and Con and Fred, two Brits, aged about 11-12, find themselves alone. The novel begins with a dramatic event: four children are travelling in a light aircraft across the Amazon jungle, which then crashes. This is only her fourth novel, but she has already won two major prizes: the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2014 for Rooftoppers and The Explorer won the Costa Book Award in 2017. I want to tell you about a wonderful book I have just completed which will be perfect summer reading for 9-12 year olds long enough to last them for a holiday, but with enough pace to sustain their interest and sufficient can’t-put-it-down qualities! Katherine Rundell. ![]()
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