By Ross Welford (author)
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Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award 2017 - Best Story | Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards, Children's Book category, 2016 | One of our Books of the Year 2016 | Shortlisted for the UKLA 2017 Book Award and Shortlisted for The Branford Boase Award 2016. January 2016 Debut of the Month
This clever, touching time travel adventure owes as much to The Railway Children as it does to Back to the Future ! Al (for Albert, after Einstein) Chaudhury’s dad is dead but – and here’s where it gets really interesting – a physicist, he’d already been experimenting with time travel and, realising what is going to happen, left instructions enabling his son to go back in time and prevent the childhood accident that will ultimately kill him. Huge congratulations to Ross Welford for observing all the rules of time travel (never easy and he manages a sly dig at Dr Who !) and constructing a terrific adventure that puts family relationships, particularly male ones, at its heart.
A truly original debut novel from an extraordinarily talented new voice in children's books. Laugh, cry and wonder at this race-against-time story of a boy who travels back to 1984 to prevent a go-kart accident, and save his father's life...
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My dad died twice. Once when he was thirty nine and again four years later when he was twelve. The first time had nothing to do with me. The second time definitely did, but I would never even have been there if it hadn't been for his 'time machine'...
When Al Chaudhury discovers his late dad's time machine, he finds that going back to the 1980s requires daring and imagination. It also requires lies, theft, burglary, and setting his school on fire. All without losing his pet hamster, Alan Shearer...
The Costa Judges said: “A highly accomplished debut, genuinely enjoyable for both a child reading independently and an adult reading with a child.”
Ross Welford was a journalist and television producer before becoming a full-time writer. He lives in London with his wife, children, a border collie and several tropical fish.
Ross Welford is the author of the bestselling novel, Time Travelling With a Hamster . Time Travelling With a Tortoise is the mind-bendingly clever follow up. Ross is also the author of other thrilling time-travelling adventures including the Monkey Who Fell From The Future and The 1,000 Year Old Boy .
Ross Welford's blog - dadfood.wordpress.com
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Time Travelling with a Hamster was written by Ross Welford and published by HarperCollins Children's Books an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Time Travelling with a Hamster has 390 pages
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