LoveReading4Kids Says
The title of this book will bring shudders to anyone who has ever undertaken a long journey with children, the book itself could be a godsend! 96 busy, colourful pages are packed with puzzles, games and activities of all sorts. The opening section will put readers properly in the holiday spirit with games and challenges to get them thinking about packing and holiday destinations. After that come pages of activities to pass the time while en route, while it’s raining, or even while your parents enjoy a lie in. The activities are very varied and will give the brain a good work-out too over those long lazy summer days. Well worth adding to the suitcase.
Andrea Reece
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Are We Nearly There Yet? Synopsis
This book is packed with cool puzzles and games to play on the way, and includes themed spreads to help them remember and cherish every part of their time. There is space to stick in memorabilia and photos, boxes to tick and fill in, and loads of fun things to colour - this doodle scrapbook will make any journey fly by!
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About Gill Harvey
Photograph copyright © Gillian Doherty
Gill grew up in Warwickshire until the age of seven, when her family moved to a derelict railway station in mid-Wales. By the age of eighteen her only aim in life was to escape the Welsh hills, so off she went to explore. After an enlightening gap year, she ducked out of a law degree and studied French and Philosophy at University College, Oxford. Then she tried mental health work, environmental work, life in a VW van in the Outer Hebrides, busking, turning pigsties into craft workshops and working on an antiques stall... all fun, but none of them quite right.
Meanwhile she discovered writing and completed a first novel, which no one wanted to publish. But it did help her get a job as writer/editor at Usborne Publishing in 1994. This introduced her to the world of children's writing and she hasn't looked back.
Gill went freelance in 2000. It has involved all sorts of writing — commissioned fiction, non-fiction, film reviews and even a software manual. Then a year in Egypt resulted in both Orphan of the Sun, set in ancient Egypt, and Love in Luxor, a modern teenage love story (Piccadilly, 2005). Further travel led to journalism, and she now writes travel features, too.
The Spitting Cobra, published by Bloomsbury in August 2009, is the first in a new series of four books set in Ancient Egypt. The Horned Viper, the second Egyptian Chronicle, will be published in October 2009 and two further thrilling installments will be released in 2010. Each book is a fantastically atmospheric evocation of Egyptian life encased in an exciting adventure story. The boy and girl characters Isis and Hopi feature throughout and readers will follow with intrigue their struggles for existence and adventures in Egypt circa 1150 BC. Set in the legendary Valley of the Kings, The Spitting Cobra opens the series with a gripping adventure of royal proportions, as Isis and Hopi try to solve the mystery of who is stealing sacred treasures from the heavily guarded Pharaoh’s tombs.
Gill lives in London but is always itching to spend more time in Africa, her favourite continent.
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