We have only just started this one, so you will have to bear with me, it may eventually turn out to be a pants book. However at the moment we are absolutely loving it.
Over the last two nights it has had both Aidan and I laughing, squealing, shouting encouragements and keen to read more.
It is a book for older kids and I think it may naturally appeal more to boys, but I am bit of a 10 year old boy at heart, there is nothing I like more than a scientific explosion. The idea is that the hero ( a young lad called Itch) is out to collect as many of the elements as he possibly can, but he stumbles upon an amazing find, and then heads into a huge adventure.
At the moment Itch has been experimenting in his bedroom, has managed to nearly destroy his room and burnt his eyebrows off, so his mum has barred him from the house and sent his kit packing to the garden shed.
Aidan is loving it, but it has got me worried about the science kits sitting in his bedroom. He is under strict instructions not to touch them without an adult present, I just hope he does not decide to copy Itch and blow parts of the house and himself up.
