SuitabookExtraordinary experience and belief
Charlie’s battered journal is first suspected to be an elaborate hoax, then treated as a true account of astonishing events.
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Nick Ward - Author
A wildly imaginative adventure built around Charlie Small’s extraordinary journal, with perilous animal encounters, unusual transport and a striking change in status among gorillas.
No one knows the full story of Charlie Small. At least, not yet. His battered journal was found washed up on a remote, windswept shore. And at first we thought it an elaborate hoax. Surely no 8-year-old could have had so many wild adventures, witnessed so many extraordinary things, lived such an incredible life--and still only be eight. And yet . . . there was something so vivid in the telling that we were persuaded to send the journal and some of its boggling content for analysis. And only one conclusion could be drawn. Everything in the journal of Charlie Small is true! In his first adventure, Gorilla City, Charlie wrestles a deadly river croc, rides a steam-powered rhino, and becomes tribal chief in a city of gorillas.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA wildly imaginative adventure built around Charlie Small’s extraordinary journal, with perilous animal encounters, unusual transport and a striking change in status among gorillas.
Charlie’s battered journal is first suspected to be an elaborate hoax, then treated as a true account of astonishing events.
Charlie faces a deadly crocodile, travels on a steam-powered rhinoceros and becomes tribal chief in a city of gorillas.
The crocodile encounter is explicitly deadly, and the adventures are described as wild. A parent may wish to notice how danger is presented and whether consequences receive attention.
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