Nice story, wonderful illustrations and I loved the various hints to pop culture: Dune, Star Trek, Spiderman, Dracula... Don't you want to try and find them yourself now? ;-)
Art and Myrtle Mumby live in Larklight, a house that orbits Earth beyond the moon, with their father, their mother having disappeared years earlier and thought dead in an aethership wreck, until one day, monstrous white spiders attack Larklight and send them scurrying. Can Art and Myrtle save their...
It is the mid-nineteenth century, Queen Victoria is on the throne, and the British Empire stretches into the stars. With their absent-minded father for their only human company, Arthur and Myrtle live in a ramshackle house named Larklight floating in deep space. But then giant spiders invade Larkl...
You know what I hate? Being nearly finished with an entertaining book and then stupidly toting my copy to the playground (with the truly insane belief that perhaps THIS TIME I will be able to read a paragraph or two while my child self-sufficiently and independently plays)...and then losing the boo...
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" for kids - and set into the Victorian Age. Sounds completely bogus? It is - but in a rather pleasant way. The space-piracy-adventure takes place in a British commonwealth that truly has a claim to be called "Empire". It includes several colonies on the moon a...
This book has been languishing on my to-read pile for over FOUR years! The description is just TOO wild and, although I was intrigued, I wasn't entirely convinced. Since I have unofficially dubbed this the 'year of languishing books' I knew it was time to give this one a go. And how glad I am! T...
This is a fantastic little steampunk novel. The scale of travel grand, the style classic and the scientific means obscured. I found the narrator's constant footnotes a great way to take a biased author and make him even more opinionated. Aside from the plot that is 1 part silly and 1 part classic...
Fun for the whole family. No, really.***2009 June 8I love the steampunk, I love the silliness of the hover hogs, and the swashbuckling and all the rest, dearly.A rousing tale it was. I'd forgotten how much pluck Myrtle gets to show, hurling herself at the Queen. Well done!
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