Noah's Gold

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Noah’s creation of a treasure map to distract the group and the subsequent discovery of gold all ads to the adventure.

This island-set survival story is a sort of version of Lord of the Flies where all the children are resourceful, sweet and smart. a funny and life-affirming tale about co-operation and resourcefulness, with a Blytonesque hidden-loot subplot thrown in. I love fantasy and all that and I can tell this is viewed for younger people but none of it was adding up.They would also only drop off a case of books and leave us to run it – it was so lovely to have you on hand to chat to the children and recommend them books, as well as the small (but appreciated! Noah offers hope to the other children on the island, and shows that, actually, children can cope perfectly well without Internet access, thank you very much. It looks like his dream will come true, but when the teacher insists on following the satnav rather than the map, things take a very different turn.

Perhaps I missed it, but it did make me stop and think why it had happened (other than as a natural chapter break).

It also mentions the family’s need to use a food bank and the way the parents make it sound as if they’ve won a competition. This experience has been fantastic primarily for the children, the school and also for me (professionally).

I loved the overall message here; yes, you miss things if you spend all your time buried in the internet, but it is useful for things as well. This one is definitely an adventure story at it’s heart, and I really enjoyed blasting through it and seeing where it was going to go. Some other great things which feel so Cottrell Boyce are the fact that the geography trip was originally meant to be going to a warehouse, that the grown up (Mr Merriman) was just so clueless, that Noah was earnestly putting letters in a letterbox and believing his parents were replying, that the entire internet was turned off. It was such a pleasure to meet you both, and I really appreciated how smoothly and professionally you ran everything.The ceremony was met with worldwide acclaim and even included a section inspired by children's books. Packed with mystery, adventure and laughs, Noah's Gold is the exciting novel from the bestselling, multi-award-winning author of Millions and Cosmic, Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Author spun a clever story around our children's use of their phones and what happens when they have to go back and do things in an old fashioned way, ultimately figuring out along the way that it's a fun and adventurous way to go about life.