Far-Flung Adventures: Fergus Crane
by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
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Author: Chris Riddell, Paul StewartEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-05-09
ISBN: 0385750889
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: David Fickling Books
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Book Review: The "Far-Flung Adventures" series is way cool
Summary: 5 Stars
If you're thinking about buying a gift for a young reader in the seven to nine age group, you may want to consider this new series. Brought to you by the same people who did "The Edge Chronicles" (another excellent series, but for slightly older kids), this one has large, easy to read print, simple language and wonderful illustrations to help keep the story bubbling along. To add to the fun, the dust jacket opens up into a fold-out map based on the geographical setting of the story.
Fergus Crane is the first book in the "Far-Flung Adventures" series, the second being Corby Flood, also available from Amazon. The third one "Hugo Pepper" will be available in February 2007.
Fergus Crane is a nine year old boy who lives with his mother beside the sea. His father had left on an ocean voyage many years ago, and had never returned. They get by on his mother's wages from the local bakery, and the income from extra work she does for a company named "The Fateful Voyage Trading Co." He attends school aboard a ship, with an unconventional crew and an even more unconventional syllabus.
His life changes one night when a mysterious flying box appears at his bedroom window, and he learns that he has a long-lost uncle, who thinks that Fergus is in danger. The plot thickens when the school ship suddenly sets sail with all the students except Fergus aboard.
Imaginative and creative, the story includes mechanical flying horses and other extra-ordinary gadgets, adventure and discovery, and hopefully, a happy ending.
Highly recommended.
Amanda Richards, September 23, 2006
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FERGUS CRANE! YOU ARE IN GREAT DANGER! I AM SENDING HELP.Signed T. C., your long-lost Uncle Theo
Fergus Crane has an almost ordinary life?having lessons taught by rather odd teachers on the school ship Betty Jeanne and helping his mother in the bakery. But then a mysterious flying box appears at the window of his waterfront home and Fergus is plunged headlong into an exciting adventure! The box is followed by a winged mechanical horse that whisks him off to meet his long-lost uncle and his penguin helpers, Finn, Bill, and Jackson. Fergus finds out that his teachers are not quite what they seem? they?re actually pirates! Can Fergus and his winged horse save his schoolmates on the far-off Fire Island? And who else will he find there?
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