Jibbooms and bobstays! Those two Blackett sisters are back at it again, and Nancy is right there in the thick of it. Their mother (doubtless suffering from exhaustion) has gone off sailing in the North Sea with Captain Flint on a rest cure, but she has allowed her two daughters to stay a fortnight at Beckfoot on the lakeshore with their trusty cook. She's also permitted their two old friends, Dick and Dorothea Callum, to come up for a visit. But when their redoubtable Great Aunt (aka G. A.) hears of their abandonment, she's horrified and off on the next train...
A car that floats?...that flies?...that can steer itself? It must be Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! Only Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, could have dreamed up this marvelous 'mobile, its enterprising owners and a series of adventures that rival those of 007 himself! When resourceful inventor Caractacus Pott saves the enormous green roadster from the scrap heap, it doesn't take long for his family to realize that they have a pretty amazing auto. Their day trip to the beach turns into an exciting sea voyage, complete with a secret cave and a gang of ruthless mobsters !
Ghastly kids is a loose expression - ghastliness is possible at any age. In Rix we have an apt student of Saki. His candidates for ghostly enterprise are children who are lazy, stubborn or downright malicious. For such a cast, the narrator is especially felicitous. Sachs is a one-man band with an offbeat sense of humor. He screeches and howls and whines, conjuring up a panoply of human and superhuman characters. Such goings-on are not recommended for the faint- or tender-hearted. The rest of us can giggle and gasp contentedly.
Two children accompany their father to the shopping Centre. They enter different shops and buy several item. They get out, but they can't see the car. Where did they park?
Climbing onto a Roman Dragon Rustling ship by mistake in your first Boarding an Enemy Ship lesson is bad enough.But then discovering Alvin the Treacherous is also on board proves to Hiccup he couldn't have been more wrong, especially when Alvin steals his copy of How to Speak Dragonese.Can Hiccup save the dragons and the day?
