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It was a buddy read that had me begin this serial, but I am pleased that I took the fourth dimension to delve in, as the adventures are wonderful. Cottrell Boyce ties the previous novel to this 1 in a masterful manner, offering breadcrumbs to the attentive reader, while entertaining those who may be new to the serial. A new collection of characters keeps the story going and offers a wonderful new realm of adventures. With just the right amount of evil villain to keep young readers curious and yet not petrified, Cottrell Boyce delivers a jam-packed risk that one can just hope will continue with the next in the series. Paced perfect and with a peppering of corny storylines, this is the perfect tale for a young reader with a taste for the adventurous.
Kudos, Mr. Cottrell Boyce for working along the Fleming framework and keeping children enthused equally they are educated about the ins and out of motors in all their forms.
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A clever, delightful sequel to the original.
I did it on audio read by David Tenant w/ background music.Absolutely vivid!
Groovy for kids & adults who want an entertaining low-cal read.
Everyone's favorite flying motorcar shifts into another dimension as the intrepid Tooting family unit zooms back and forth through fourth dimension.
When the Tootings return to Zobrowski Terrace at the end of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Over again, they find that "dwelling house" is looking a lot like Jurassic Park. But this is no theme park — a very existent and very hungry T- rex is charging them! Cheers to Dad'south inadvertent yanking of Chitty'due south "Chronojuster" lever, the spirited car has ushered them By Frank Cottrell Boyce. Grade A.
Everyone'southward favorite flying motorcar shifts into another dimension equally the intrepid Tooting family zooms dorsum and forth through fourth dimension.
When the Tootings return to Zobrowski Terrace at the end of Chitty Chitty Bang Blindside Flies Again, they find that "home" is looking a lot like Jurassic Park. Simply this is no theme park — a very existent and very hungry T- rex is charging them! Thanks to Dad's inadvertent yanking of Chitty's "Chronojuster" lever, the spirited car has ushered them dorsum to prehistoric times, where the family (and especially Baby Harry) make a narrow escape. But Chitty has a heed of her own, and the Tootings will get an unexpected tour of exciting times and places from Prohibition-era New York (where Chitty wants to compete in the famous Prix d'Esmerelda's Birthday Cake race) to the lost city of El Dorado and dorsum again, with misadventures and surprise stowaways along the style. Get prepare for a hilarious high-flying adventure, with historic author Frank Cottrell Boyce behind the wheel.
The book is nigh Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a magical car which tin fly, swim, become a submarine and travel dorsum and forth in time. We watch it journey to dissimilar fourth dimension lines to run across dissimilar people, all having great significance in the automobile's life.
When normal cars suspension downward, they terminate in the middle of the road. Chitty is not a normal car, so when it breaks down information technology takes you into ancient times to fight the dragons which are set upon eating yous.
This time information technology is the Tooting family who are in the machine when information technology breaks downwards and they land in the dinosaur era. The family bravely fights the hungry Tyrannosaurus who want to feed his hungry stomach and manages to get away. They were trying to save the world from the evil Nanny and Tiny Jack and are looking for The Potts family unit who were the previous owners of the automobile. They gear up the car to 1966 but they soon find out that Chitty has a mind of her own. Chitty lands them in a different place notwithstanding again, for all the same another adventure. This fourth dimension it is New York, just only not the time they want to be in. It turns out that Chitty wants to meet someone else, a Count Louis Zborowski , a race auto commuter and the human being Chitty happens to be in love with.
Their adventures are far from over. They compete in a race, go tied upwardly past evil people, run away from the police and finally country in El Dorado – a place made of gold – where the Queens try to steal their machine and in the terminate disassemble information technology into small small-scale pieces..
The adventures proceed and each fourth dimension all the members of The Tooting family begin together and manage to get out safely and charge ahead.
The story is interesting, easy to empathise and full of adventures. It too has plenty of illustrations to keep the young readers interested. The plot line is uncomplicated, with plenty of moralistic letters, including those of unity and love. Throughout the whole story, the author manages to highlight the fact that The Tooting family is trying to salvage the world. They are fighting evil and trying to replace it with dear, affection and harmony.
An amazing job by Frank Cottrell Boyce. Leaves you wishing you had read something this expert in your childhood.
Originally reviewed at http://vaultofbooks.com/
...moreI don't ordinarily post reviews directly on Goodreads, but I won a re-create of this book, so I'll post both hither and on the TMCE Guys Read Web log:
Have you e'er read a book and wished there was more to the story? Some characters and stories are so fun that we wish they could terminal forever, that we could keep having adventures with them. I think that's what Frank Cottrell Boyce was thinking when he wrote this book.
The original Chitty Chitty Bang Blindside was written b
Rereading, Apr 2015, as a home read aloud.I don't usually mail service reviews direct on Goodreads, just I won a copy of this volume, so I'll post both here and on the TMCE Guys Read Weblog:
Take you always read a book and wished there was more than to the story? Some characters and stories are so fun that we wish they could last forever, that nosotros could keep having adventures with them. I think that's what Frank Cottrell Boyce was thinking when he wrote this book.
The original Chitty Chitty Blindside Bang was written by Ian Fleming in the 1960s. Mr. Fleming is nigh famous for creating super-spy James Bail. I read Fleming's volume last year. It reminded me a lot of Roald Dahl–a little goofy, a piffling wild, and definitely British. Information technology is almost a family who happen upon an astonishing automobile, named Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, leading to danger, adventure, and mystery.
So came a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flick, made by Disney in 1968. The pic was not much like the volume. It had the some of the aforementioned characters, but the story was very different. Maybe it could be considered merely another story in the life of this crazy auto.
And now we take Chitty Chitty Bang Blindside Flies Once more, by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It is all the same some other edition of the story of Chitty Chitty Blindside Bang, the magical car.
I liked the book. I remember if you are a Roald Dahl fan, you lot should definitely read Ian Fleming's book, and and so this 1. Mr. Boyce does a great task of capturing the slightly goofy style of the original book–information technology has an old-fashioned feel, despite being ready in the present. He likewise leaves some great hints and tidbits for people who know what to look for. There are several references to Mr. Fleming's story, including a certain French chocolate store and a criminal relation. Mr. Boyce even sneaks in a squeamish tribute to James Bond.
This book is absolutely set upward for a sequel. The terminate is not really the end. I look Mr. Boyce will write information technology, but I think it would be fun if a bunch of different authors–-particularly British (or American, or any!) authors who loved Chitty as kids–tried their hand at continuing the story of this fantastic automobile. That could be fun–kind of like The 39 Clues, except goofy, and with a flying car.
Mrs. B. doesn't have the original Chitty in the library, but the public library has information technology. I've got a copy of this new one in Room iii.
Like cars? Looking for a piddling light sense of humor and adventure? This book will requite you plenty of both.
Keep reading!
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Chitty Chitty Blindside Bang Flies Again
By Frank Cottrell Boyce
192 pages
Genre: Adventure, fantasy, one-act, goofy
Source: NetGalley, but so I won a copy on Goodreads!
On shelves March 13, 2012.Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
...moreAdjacent came the flick. What a major disappointment! The machine wasn't even the right color. To me, it was silly, tedious and tiresome. Frank Cottrell Boyce had a totally different experience. He saw the movie beginning and loved information technology. Then he read the book. He writes that this was the first time he knew that "films and books - fifty-fifty when they're telling the same story - each had a dissimilar kind of enchantment."
Chitty Blindside Bang Flies Again does indeed have its ain kind of enchantment. It takes the best pieces from the original, mixes them together with new ideas and creates a wholly unique tale that has the Tooting family traveling the world, escaping the clutches of greedy crooks (Man Mountain Fink's son from the original gang) and learning all about their amazingly wonderful Chitty Chitty Bang Blindside. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is part of the family now and is teaching the Tootings to pay attending to each other, listen carefully and take trust in the power of family.
What a terrifically satisfying sequel!
...moreThe Tooting family finds itself in a position that many families are experiencing these days-- the father has lost his job. Since he is clever and upbeat, he has decided this is an Opportunity and takes to unemployment with a flourish, but his family decides he needs a project. They go an quondam camper van which the mother thinks can't maybe exist fixed, and tell the father that when it is stock-still, they will travel effectually the world. Of course, he does fix it, so Jem, Lucy, lilliputian Harry and the paren
The Tooting family unit finds itself in a position that many families are experiencing these days-- the male parent has lost his job. Since he is clever and upbeat, he has decided this is an Opportunity and takes to unemployment with a flourish, merely his family unit decides he needs a project. They go an old camper van which the mother thinks can't perchance be fixed, and tell the father that when it is fixed, they volition travel around the earth. Of course, he does fix information technology, and so Jem, Lucy, little Harry and the parents take off on a trek effectually the world. It is soon credible that Chitty, who has the engine of the car from the volume past Ian Fleming, is on a mission to restore itself with original parts, so the family finds themselves in all sorts of unusual places, including sitting well-nigh the Sphinx in Egypt selling pancakes! They also meet an assortment of villians along the way, including the Circe-like Nanny who tries to get them to stay for a very long while at Chateau Bateau while she destroys the car. The Tootings, withal, are zip if non motivated and clever, and manage to escape. What volition Chitty'southward next adventure be?
Strengths: The Tootings are a fun, resourceful family, and the risk is well plotted. The dissimilar places to which they travel are interesting.
Weaknesses: The tone is rather goofy, and British goofy is a slightly dissimilar flavor from Usa goofy. Also, very few of my students are familiar with the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang motion-picture show, much less the book, and I encounter this being a harder sell because of this unfamiliarity. Does make me want to keep the 1964 Fleming original, even though no one ever checks it out!
...more
Fans of the cla
When Jem, Lucy and Harry's Dad loses his job he drives his family crazy fixing and changing things around the firm. They are all relieved when he finds a rusty 1966 23 window Samba Bus Campervan and decides to restore it. While looking for parts in a scrapyard, he finds an engine. Non merely any engine – a Zboroski engine, meant for a plane! This is where the adventure begins. Parking on the Eiffel Belfry, avoiding man eating piranhas, theft of the Sphinx and escaping a behemothic squid!Fans of the classic Chitty will love this new story from the author of 'Millions'. It still holds the classic magic of Chitty with modernistic characters for new fans
...more thanBeing a little generous with my rating hither because I'thousand a fan of the original. But either some plot loops were left unresolved, or there's another book coming in the series.
This is fun if you're a fan of the original. If y'all haven't read Chitty Chitty Bang Bang withal, get to information technology!Beingness a little generous with my rating here because I'm a fan of the original. But either some plot loops were left unresolved, or in that location'southward some other book coming in the series.
...moreI read it in a few sittings, and it was just every bit good, if not meliorate, than I expected. I tin't wait to read the original and this new sequel aloud to my kids. I'm a big fan of the original Chitty and a big fan of Frank Cottrell Boyce, and so I went into mild raptures when I saw this at my local bookstore a few days ago.
I read it in a few sittings, and it was just every bit good, if non better, than I expected. I can't expect to read the original and this new sequel aloud to my kids. ...more than
I loved these new children. I loved their parents. I loved Chitty! I also loved that David Tennant narrated the audiobook as well. What a fun read!
...more thanMy only complaints are:
1. It seemed to exist mean toward the French which didn't fit the first book.
2. I've never been a fan of obvious cliffhangers to lead into the next volume.
I'chiliad nonetheless quite i
At first it surprised me that it went all nowadays day in the story, but then I thought the original was really a present day slice when information technology was written besides. And so I was dislocated nearly why the vehicle didn't more than resemble the one in the original, merely that got answered throughout the volume in a really clever way.My merely complaints are:
i. It seemed to exist hateful toward the French which didn't fit the first book.
2. I've never been a fan of obvious cliffhangers to lead into the next book.
I'm nonetheless quite interested in the series and await forrad to reading them all.
...more thanChitty Chitty takes a long time to make an appearance, just that's all correct: the real strength of the book is the family dynamics. I beloved the whole family unit!
Fabulous volume! My vehicle-loving preschooler wouldn't allow u.s. turn off the audiobook.Chitty Chitty takes a long time to make an appearance, just that'due south all right: the existent strength of the book is the family dynamics. I love the whole family unit!
...moreI actually had a good time experiencing the world of this book, so clever and fun.
This volume is actually rather charming and a lovely addition to Ian Fleming's classic. Characters are intriguing and unique, mannerly, energetic, and exhausting.I actually had a good fourth dimension experiencing the earth of this book, so clever and fun.
...moreIn addition to original scripts, Cottrell Boyce has also adjusted novels for the screen and written children's fiction, winning the 2004 Carnegie Medal for his debut, Millions, based on his own screenplay for the film of the same proper name.
His novel Framed was shortlisted for the Whitbread Book of the Year as well equally the Carne
In addition to original scripts, Cottrell Boyce has also adjusted novels for the screen and written children's fiction, winning the 2004 Carnegie Medal for his debut, Millions, based on his own screenplay for the film of the same name.
His novel Framed was shortlisted for the Whitbread Book of the Year as well as the Carnegie Medal.
He adapted the novel into a screenplay for a 2009 BBC television film. His 2009 novel Catholic has also been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
He is married and the father of seven children.
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