Time Travelling with a Hamster

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Welford uses time travel to deal with metaphysics, life, grief, and mind and space-bending dimensions of time. The second time definitely did, but I would never even have been there if it hadn't been for his "time machine. Huge congratulations to Ross Welford for observing all the rules of time travel (never easy and he manages a sly dig at Dr Who! Georgie Docwra, age 10- 'I really enjoyed reading Time Travelling with a Hamsteras it is a very funny book, which made me laugh out loud.

This story has reminded me of when I was a young girl, and I used to pretend to time travel in my dad's garden shed, with a broken radio and an old computer keyboard. In the end, Al cleverly engineers a total win, and if that seems unlikely considering the hazards of meddling with the past, readers won’t begrudge him. The Costa Judges said: “A highly accomplished debut, genuinely enjoyable for both a child reading independently and an adult reading with a child. After all, how much can a few wires, an Apple MacBook, a rusty old tub and a hamster change the world?I've just finished this book and I've been left with that weird empty feeling you get when you've just experienced something amazing and know that, somehow, it's going to change you. But as Al soon discovers, whizzing back thirty years requires not only imagination and courage, but also lying to your mom, stealing a moped, and setting your school on fire—oh, and keeping your pet hamster safe. This is not a bad thing per se but the problem with this is that the narrative voice doesn’t quite decide if it wants to sound very young or much older. Al (short for Albert Einstein Hawking Chaudhury) lives with his mother, his step-dad Steve, his half-sister Carly and his amazing Grandpa Byron.

Por ello considero que está perfectamente narrado para que estos lectores no se aburran ni se cansen, si no que cada vez quieran leer más y más. One of the tricks I performed at my audition is the“Time Travelling Rope Trick” – featured innearly all my school and festival shows. Nods to classic time travel stories will delight some readers; those merely looking for a page-turning adventure will find that and more.

Overwritten and over-explained in places, it takes a while to get going, and there is a lot of complication required to resolve all the loose ends.