Bored with staying in? Parent's driving you mad with telling you to get of the tech and do something to expand your brain? Missing the adventures you and your mates had (back in the olden days when you were actually allowed to see your mates!). Then HERE *Fanfare of trumpets* is your antidote my friends!
Alfie Fleet's Guide to the Universe is the much anticipated sequel to 'The Cosmic Atlas of Alfie fleet', a rip-roaring, snort-laugh inducing adventure where we meet Alfie & Professor Bowell-Mouvemont & travel with them to weird and wonderful worlds.
In Guide to the Universe, Alfie and the team are about to open The Unusual Travel Agency - the ultimate travel company for those seeking adventure and out-of-this-world experiences. Travel through the stone circle to a completely different world so far outside your imaginings that your head might explode.
As a fan of yoga I myself will be travelling to the Planet of Baldy, where the brochure suggests i can: 'Learn the famous Stuttering Ferret position and put both feet up your own nostrils on a yoga retreat with Guru Wobbli Rubbahlegs Bindibendi!'.
This is seriously one of the best books i've found this lockdown to completely free your mind from it's four walled constraints and let it fly, loosed from the shackles of your bedroom and soaring above the planet Winspan, where the gravity is just weak enough to allow you to don wings and fly - base jumping off cliffs and swooping over the glittering bowl ocean. Explosively funny, you'll be laughing away the tedium of lockdown. I'm packing my suitcase now!
Have some fun planning your own Travel Brochure, and creating the Planets that you'd most like to travel to. I know for my daughter it would be kitten and unicorn based (riding a unicorn whilst simultaneously cuddling a kitten?), and for my ten year old it would definitely be something Playstation based. Your imagination is your only limitation!
Alfie Fleet's guide to the Universe, written by Martin Howard, Illustrated by Chris Mould and published by Oxford University Press. Recommended for readers 7+ and anyone planning their next vacation!
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