Capturing loads of content especially for children, this is a home where kids can engage with videos, watch interviews, read book reviews from their peers, and enjoy tons of activities and competitions. There’s a self-organised queue of children wanting to borrow the book as soon as it goes back into the library, and I’m convinced this will be one of our most-borrowed books this year once the other classes find out about it. It’s not every day that a magical train drives through your hallway but that’s what happens to Suzy at the opening of this terrific adventure story. Creeping downstairs, she sees her parents fast asleep on the sofa, and a troll building train tracks through her hallway. I absolutely loved the idea of this magical train that truly did the impossible, whether it be the ability of transforming houses for a railway or through the ignorance of gravity.

Train to Impossible Places The class book review: The Train to Impossible Places

From the beginning of the story, Suzy was already thrown into a magical world, without being explained why she could see the trolls and was not affected from their magic. The Train To Impossible Places - a magnificent steam engine, driven by another troll, a bear, and pulling a mail carriage and the postmaster behind it - must take a diversion through Suzy’s house. Being something of a scientist, and deeply inquisitive, Suzy can’t let this opportunity pass and climbs aboard. I found it difficult to follow along with the main character of Suzy when the adventures for the other characters were included. I had zero interest in the story at the beginning, but as the plot progressed it got more and more interesting.Suzy is smart, brave and caring without being sanctimonious - someone we can all look up to in any dimension. I also really liked the final chapters, because nothing was as it seems and I had loads of questions until the end.

Train to Impossible Places): 3 Delivery to the Lost City (The Train to Impossible Places): 3

I feel like, if I would bring this book to a Primary School, I would mention that it's for kids that love reading harder and bigger books. It is kinda sorta but not really like Harry Potter, in that the protagonist is a child who enters into a world of magic. Suzy Smith is very surprised when a huge magical train takes a shortcut through her downstairs hallway one evening. As readers, we run to keep up with every twist and turn and gravity inversion of this strange and brilliant new world.Overall, as I said, it was okay: the fantasy elements were fun, I liked the main character and Wilmot was just adorable; the setting and the general plot were good enough, but nothing extraordinary. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. And when it makes an unscheduled stop in Suzy’s living room, the young girl sneaks aboard and finds herself given the job of Deputy Post Master. I love his monthly TBR game he does where I learn about more middle grade books I should pick up and read.