"The delightful tale of a finickety, pernickety, time-travelling umbrella"
June 2025 Book of the Month
Only Sally Gardner could have conjured up Pernickety Boo, a wonderfully innocent, more than slightly magical talking umbrella with the ability to time travel, and a penchant for eating gloves; and aren’t we lucky she has!
Left behind on an underground train by his absent-minded owner, a sorcerer who has equally absent-mindedly brought him to life, Pernickety is sent from the Lost Property Office to a jumble sale where he is found by exactly the right person, a little girl named Sylvie Moonshine, someone who holds onto him, even when he’s soggy.
His adventures with Sylvie, and separately with her cat Jimjam, are full of charm, whether they are time-travelling or taking on nasty scoop-chasing journalist Ada Moore and Pernickety’s idiosyncratic understanding of the world brings a special degree of humour and unpredictability to every situation. Chris Mould’s illustrations are equal to the sparkling originality of the story, and this is a delight.
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