SuitabookFlying high
Linda Chapman
- Reading
- If family change is a live concern, read alongside the child and pause around Tilly’s reaction rather than treating her return as a model response. Afterwards, discuss what choices felt genuinely hers.
- Themes
- Family change and belonging: Tilly resists her father’s remarriage, does not get on with her future step-sister, and leaves before the wedding. The book leaves its stance open to more than one reading.
- Magic, secrecy and memory: Lauren and Twilight use magic to help Tilly return, then Tilly drinks a potion that removes her memory of what she has seen and protects Twilight’s secret. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Rescue and personal choice: Tilly runs away, is found in Twilight’s stable, sees a possible future and agrees to return; Lauren and Twilight then help her get back in time. The plot presents magical help as central to the rescue, but does not establish whether Tilly’s decision is portrayed as independent, pressured or simply changed by new understanding.
- Worth knowing
- Consider whether the child would welcome a story involving a parent’s remarriage, conflict with a future step-sibling, running away, and a character being made to forget a magical experience.