Alphabet Resort – Elastic Island Adventures #4

Description

Elastic Island Adventures: Alphabet Resort is the fourth in an exciting junior fiction series, a fantasy action-adventure set in the South Pacific for readers aged 8-12.

Reviews

‘Miss Eight and I had been looking forward to reviewing this book for so long – she was already a firm fan of the series and could not wait to see what the four children and her personal favourite, Blong the Cat, would be up to this time round. There is a nice sense of familiarity when a book is part of a series. The main characters are like special friends; their personalities are already known, so you can go straight to the story proper.

‘​Near the beginning of the book is a list of the 26 authors who have given their names to the various buildings in Alphabet Resort. I was amazed at how intrigued Miss Eight was by the listing. I had thought she would skim over those two pages after reading the first two entries, but I had to read the entire list to her so she could comment on each entry. She was familiar with around 50% of the authors, a lot more than I had expected. Of course, some of them were not “real” authors but that did not matter to her. She loved the whole idea and said she hoped one day someone would name something after her too! 10/10’ ~ Kiwi Reviews

​’In this story, that easily stands alone, they have been invited to the wedding of King Shiny and Princess Topaz. Their accommodation is the Alphabet Resort where each holiday house is named after a children’s author complete with information about them and their books. I think it’s great when children’s stories reference other authors and books as it will inspire wider reading. Then Princess Topaz is kidnapped and the children help in the hunt to find her in time for her wedding. It’s made more difficult with a set of cryptic clues to decipher and that Princess Topaz has been rendered invisible. The characters are amusing and quirky, especially Mrs Quokka with her mixed-up idioms known as Quokka logic. RECOMMENDED.’ ~ Read NZ Te Pou Muramura

Kiwi author Karen McMillan

Find out more about Auckland author Karen McMillan on her author profile.