The Day the Screens Went Blank

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The book took us four nights to read and there were plenty of laugh out loud moments, as well as some touching ones. They enjoyed the modern cultural references as well as the poo humour! I’ll usually choose something exciting but age-appropriate and on Sunday it was Dumbo, which I was greatly enjoying, though I have to say it was a little far-fetched. And then Dad spotted Sandra was wearing a normal old-fashioned watch and asked her what time it was because nothing in the house was telling him any more. She said it was half past eight. It really made me laugh in some parts and I love that it is set in Mousehole, Penzance, Cornwall. I have been here on my summer holidays 3 times and it’s just a magical place. What happens when Mum and Dad can no longer rely on technology to keep them informed? Following a nationwide collapse in everything technical, Stella’s family sets off to visit Grandma on the other side of the country because they can’t reach her on Skype. It’s a road trip with a difference – no phones, no sat nav, no paying for a meal with a credit card. Stella makes a great narrator as she watches her father, shorn of his usual helping tools, navigate this new situation. In doing so she lightly reveals the pitfalls that would beset us all if all the screens went blank while also gently leading readers to see that there could be some benefits.

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Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing - The family decide they need to go and find Stella's grandma, hundreds of miles and many years of visits away... she may need them. But will they manage to get to her without the usual comforts of technology to guide their journey? What do you do when your iPad won't work? Or the TV? How do you call someone when your Mum's mobile is the only place where phone numbers are kept? And what will happen to Granny, who lives somewhere that only SatNav lady knows? Imagine if all the technology in the world just . . . STOPPED. When ten-year-old Stella wakes up to discover a world full of BLANK screens, her family, town, and in fact the whole world seems to have been thrown into chaos. And what about poor Grandma who is stranded at the other end of the country? It was a really funny book. It was about a girl called Stella and a boy called Teddy and they went on a car journey to there grandma's house.

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And you’d think as an adult reader (me), you’d be able to predict all the things that go wrong but screen use is far more insidious than I think! And...they rediscover good old living and build up new memories. This is a fun book for 7-9 narrated by a hilarious Stella who says things like it is. Young readers will appreciate her candid observations and straight-faced humour. You could see author Danny Wallace through her voice 😆😍📚

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The family goes on a road trip to get to Grandma (they don’t know if she’s ok and they can’t call her because her number is saved in the mobile phone!) Stella witnesses a world gone slightly wonky from the adults having no screens. Wait, how do you even get there without a GPS? Money, work, lives, all gone crazy! Okay, I know that wasn’t the most dramatic opening of all time, but you just wait because THIS is where things get weird! Anyway, because of all the shouting, I go downstairs and immediately I can tell something is not right, right? What happens to Stella's family feels like the comedy version of an older reader's dystopia, though to many it would of course feel just as frightening and world-ending: screens die. Humanity is left bereft and suffering withdrawal, floundering around both in families and communities and as whole societies to function.The key used to be Post-it Notes, until I realised that was bad for the environment, so now I use the organizer on my mum's old phone. There's nothing more satisfying than a full calendar." Can you imagine a world with no screens? Don't miss the hilarious new 'what-if' adventure from bestselling author, comedian, and presenter Danny Wallace, with illustrations throughout from Gemma Correll. As much as The day the screens went blank will have you in stitches of laughter, it will also remind us how we should all be more present, and for this reason adults and children alike will both enjoy reading this book. It's great. A little proselytising aside, I found this very funny. Loved seeing what adventures and scrapes the family found themselves in on their trip to Grandma's House through the 'woods'.