Editorial Reviews. Review. 'Fast-paced and accompanied by Mould's own dark illustrations, The Wooden Mile is a riveting read for newly independent readers.
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The Great Drain Escape: Beast of the Bay. The Great Treasure Hunt: The Great Cheese Robbery: Ten Swashbuckling Pirate Tales. Ghosts on the Loose. Attack of the Slime. Pip and the Lost Children: Pip and the Twilight Seekers: Pip and the Wood Witch Curse: The Curse of the Wolf: From the moment they claw their way out of a graveyard you know you are onto a winner. Fast-paced and accompanied by Mould's own dark illustrations, The Wooden Mile is a riveting read for newly independent readers.
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Roaring Brook Press September 30, Language: Related Video Shorts 0 Upload your video. Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Chris Mould does not disappoint in this 2nd volume of what will become a really good series. His pen and ink drawings throughout these books are so different and the books would not be the same without them. Stanley's story continues and he has more adventures to come in the upcoming volumes.
The Icy Hand (Something Wickedly Weird, #2) by Chris Mould
The stories are rollicking good fun with each as good as the last. Finish volume 2 and go on to 3 and 4 and 5, etc. Just love this series. One person found this helpful. This series has been our favorite since we found the first book in the series at a book store years ago. My son loved it so much I've had to replace the first one in the series because it was falling apart.
I very much enjoyed the first book in this series and was curious to see if this second volume was as interesting and fun as the first. I am happy to report that, at least for me, this book was, if anything, better. In the first volume of this series we met Stanley Buggles, who is a smart, courageous, inquisitive, and clever hero for whom you are happy to root. The setting, the isolated island of Crampton Rock, is creepy and intriguing, with lots of odd aspects.
The supporting characters are sometimes cranky and mysterious, but, like Mrs.
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Carelli the housekeeper , can also be warm and supportive in caring for Stanley. Stanley now has a friend in town, spirited, stout-hearted and reliable Daisy. She participates extensively in all of the adventures, and that has opened up the narrative a bit. The plot of the first book, which then arcs through the whole series, involves Stanley's great-uncle Admiral Bartholomew Swift, from whom Stanley inherited Candlestick Hall, the Crampton Rock mansion , and a valuable amulet that was hidden by great-uncle Bartholomew.
Dastardly villains, mostly in the form of pirates, want the amulet and presumably the treasure to which it points, and everyone's looking for a map or at least a clue to its location. Inconveniently, great-uncle Bartholomew is at the outset a headless ghost, and so not much of a source of guidance or aid.
Each book seems to involve a further step or two toward locating the treasure, and each is a distinct episode in the ongoing battle between Stanley and the baddies to get to it first. In this book, we have two resurrected ghostly pirates closing in on Crampton Rock in search of the magical medallion. This is a quirky sort of book in that distinctive English kids' book way.
The hero has a bit of a poor urchin triumphing over adversity vibe. There are odd bits of magic that drift around the story. For example, the talking stuffed fish is very helpful. The villains are very villainous, as though English authors know and believe that even quite young kid readers can tolerate a little more dangerous thrill than they are given credit for. The atmosphere of the settings is appropriately threatening and gloomy. Is all of England haunted coast, haunted moor, or haunted houses? The overall effect is one of jaunty dread.
By that I mean the weather is gloomy, there are threatening ghostly figures, there is menace and the hero often finds himself in tight spots. Alfie Cat In Trouble. Alfie Far From Home. The Cereal Box Mystery.
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