It's a simple enough story which is really aimed at young boys, but it has enough depth of feeling, information and good old fashioned wonder to keep any reader enthralled.

The book does lose some momentum toward the end, but it is definately a world which you are always happy to enter into and never keen to leave - and in many ways, you need never do so.

Simple, wonderful, humourous and observant, and indicative of a place and time in history that may never have existed, except in stories.


Wonderful, Beautiful.   April 2, 2003
 11 out of 14 found this review helpful

This is a book to warm your heart and which, once read, will always hold special meaning.

It's a simple enough story which is really aimed at young boys, but it has enough depth of feeling, information and good old fashioned wonder to keep any reader enthralled.

The book does lose some momentum toward the end, but it is definately a world which you are always happy to enter into and never keen to leave - and in many ways, you need never do so.

Simple, wonderful, humourous and observant, and indicative of a place and time in history that may never have existed, except in stories.


a typical boyish adventure easy to become engrossed in   October 1, 2000
 14 out of 15 found this review helpful

This book I felt initially was too old fashioned for me to read. It appears to be all too happy and cheery. Yet once you begin to read the book you appreciate it for what it is. It is a boyish adventure written at a time when there was faith in the world and it was believed that there was good in all. I now feel that this book is very well written. It shows a side to these boys that now in Lord of the Flies by William Golding and The Beach by Alex Garland seem to feel no longer exists. It shows faith in humans and I feel that it is a book that if taken for what it is is a very enjoyable book.