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The boy in the book is like Jane Goodall because he cares about animals. I think many children aged nine to twelve should read this book because they would enjoy it and it has parallels to the real world. What a truly wonderful book! Beautifully and engagingly written and with quirky illustrations. A joy! There are passages in the book which describe cruelty towards the sprites which I would be wary of reading to younger children, which is to say that this book has some depth to it. It makes complete sense in terms of the characters but this is not just a sweet book about fairies. Funny, thought-provoking, and moving. Recommended! A lovely and enchanting story, told simply with delightfully atmospheric and accomplished illustrations by the author.

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Mad Scientist: Why do scientists always get a bad press? Why is Asa the hero? Why not Benjamin Tooth the alchemist? Just once, I'd like to read a book where a scientist doesn't make a mistake and cause a plague, or breed a herd of man eating dinosaurs, or blow the world up. Just once, I'd like the scientist to be the hero and save the day. Just the other day, for example, I was on a beach and spotted a venomous snake. But because I was a scientist, I was able to identify the snake and alert everyone. Just think, if I hadn't been there...While looking through books, he finds one about a madman called Benjamin Tooth who said he saw sprites. It also tells him about a trunk and a lost key. Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary_edition

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A warning to parents/ librarians/ teachers: the pictures – both word and visual – of dead and tormented sprites might unsettle younger children who read this book. However, these themes do tend to draw readers in above a certain age. This is a very magical story. It is about a curious boy called Asa Brown who finds a fairy. He is my favourite character because he wants to find out what the Windvale Sprites are and how they live.After a huge storm, Asa Brown finds something strange in his garden pond. It looks and moves a bit like a dragonfly, but on closer inspection Asa sees it is something much more extraordinary: a creature he had read about in books, but didn't believe they actually existed!

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I read this book because I found it interesting that someone who is best known as a bad pirate, who is always pulling his eye out and eating it, could be a respectable writer.One of the things I really liked about this book was that even though the little protagonist initially follows in the footsteps of a scientist, he never stops to think for himself. The winners of The Farshore Reading for Pleasure Teacher Awards 2023, highlighting the work schools are doing to encourage a love of reading, have... There is also plenty to grab the mature reader's attention. Little jokes like the passing mention of a place called Cottingley (the famous early 20th-century faked fairy photos from the real Cottingley village even fooled Arthur Conan Doyle) and an oblique hint about Terry Jones' Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book; the author's own remimiscences of The Great Storm of 1987 which devastated a huge swathe of southern Britain, and a grownup's natural curiosity as to how Asa will explain lying about going on a projected school trip. (Crook will sidestep the consequences of Asa's escapade by subsequently penning The Lost Journals of Benjamin Tooth, set two centuries before.) and this person trying to find him and have more information . that all I can tell you without spoiling the story