We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. With a delightful cast of characters including Dario who is full of interesting facts and Ada who is convinced the island is inhabited by fairies, this is a wonderful funny adventure story about pulling together, helping each other - and maybe not spending all your time looking at your phone! I'm not sure about Dimitri, but if Dimitri means most-annoying-brother-in-the-whole-wide-world, then that's him. There was something just slightly off kilter about the whole thing, a weird tinge of horror almost, although I don't think kids reading it would be chilled in the way I was. I enjoyed the accent of the narrator too, I would have had a completely different experience reading the book myself.

or how to make dinner for six children with one packet of sweets, a few rice crispie sandwiches and a bar of chocolate? Yourself and Bob are much cherished in our booky world and I personally really appreciate everything that you do. Mind you, I guess you'd think the same of "a wartime boy rescues a wartime gorilla and they have a wartime adventure", "a girl wants a fing, but a fing isn't even a thing", or "there's slime", and they somehow got printed. Noah is a wonderful narrator, and if you're after an easy read that will give you plenty of giggles, you could do a lot worse. You'd think "disaster strikes during a school trip to a big-river-monikered online retailer's warehouse" would be rejected at the pitch stage.The chapters are written as letters between Noah and his parents, and the fact that they seem strangely calm – maybe even amused – at Noah’s Lord of the Flies-style situation gives it a real sense of the absurd. He has also written his own picture book Princess Daisy and the Dragon and the Nincompoop Knights' and his new young fiction series Genie and Teeny . The characters are engaging and believeable (although I maintain they're younger than we're told), and the story bobs along nicely. Noah may be younger than the others, but he worries that they’ll find out the internet breaking might be his fault (seems that this island houses some very important cables). I bet this would be a great class read for a Y5 or 6 class - it’s fun and relatable with lots of dilemmas to discuss, including whether some aspects of life might be better without the internet.

When the teacher takes them the wrong way, they lose the rest of the class and somehow end up on an uninhabited island. Steven Lenton is a multi-award-winning illustrator, originally from Cheshire, now working from his studios in Brighton and London with his dog, Big Eared Bob.Their summary was 'a teacher gets lost on the way to a school trip, they get stuck on a deserted island, the teacher goes missing and the children are stranded' I said it sounds like my nightmares before school trips! It's frequently laugh-out-loud funny, but apart from the dramatic events that bookend the story, not much actually happens. Despite one in three children in the UK estimated to be living in poverty, the realities of growing up poor just aren't reflected in the majority of books for children and teens.