Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures #1): The bestselling, heart-stopping adventure!

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She took a hairpin from her bun of red hair, straightened it in her teeth, and popped it in the keyhole. While the world building is strong, it's never too heavy to deter a pre-teen reader and there's even a brief glossary at the back to explain concepts that a young reader may be unfamiliar with, such as perpetual motion machines and penny dreadfuls. Airships, hybrid villans and automata make this a definitely alternative Victorian setting, and they are nicely bedded in, feeling quite natural in the world of the novel.

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After studying at art college and film school, Peter worked as an animator on commercials, pop videos and 2 BAFTA winning children’s TV shows. She walked over and peered round the edge of the drape to find Molly Tarnish, the mechanical maid, sitting softly crying to herself, her metal shoulders shaking beneath her starched white pinny.Character-wise there are majestic wolves and an engaging hero in Ysolda, who grows in confidence throughout her journey. With her friends - Robert, the clockmaker's son, and Malkin, her mechanical fox - Lily is plunged into a murky and menacing world. It often came across as being forced and melodramatic, with characters often breaking into lengthy detailed and inspirational monologues that just didn't come across as natural speech. I know, she said, why don’t we use your dyed sheets on the bottom of the beds, then we can use the old white ones as top sheets to hide them?

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Peter grew up in South London in a rambling Victorian house with three cats, two dogs, one sister, an antique-dealer dad and an artist mum. The growing trust between Lily and Robert is handled well, and the irresisitible fox, Malkin, is simply - irresistible.After art college and film school, Peter worked as an animator on commercials, pop videos, and two BAFTA-winning children’s TV shows, and wrote and directed several successful short films. This hardback collection, packed with short stories, poems and pictures from the very best children's authors and illustrators, aims to provide just that.

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Remember, she said, wagging a single finger, if you’ve any more of these dreadful things you can be sure I’ll find them. Lily suspected he was just a natural born worrier, though he still insisted she have the life of a normal well-bred Victorian young lady. He never explained why, or what he was trying to hide her from, but since the time of Mama’s death he’d become preoccupied with keeping Lily’s whereabouts a secret, even moving them from London to deep in the countryside. Lily is as feisty a heroine as Bonnie, and the action trips along nicely with suitable period touches which are also very reminiscent of Aiken's not-quite historical England.The award-winning author of Cogheart has a new story filled with early airplanes, brave aviators, and one big dragon! This is definitely one for fans of Philip Reeve’s steampunk classic Mortal Engines, and they would also enjoy The Diamond Thief by Sharon Gosling. She tried to push back, but Lucretia had joined in with her friend – she’d got a hold of Lily’s other arm, and wouldn’t let go. Peter grew up in London in a rambling Victorian house with 3 cats, 2 dogs, 1 little sister, an antique dealer dad and an artist mum. Even so, as she ground her teeth and watched Molly hurry from the room, the anger ticked away inside her chest, threatening to explode.

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It follows the story of Lily, whose inventor father is missing, presumed dead after the airship crash.Swept into the bright hustle and bustle of New York, Lily, Robert and Malkin discover shadowy secrets lie beneath its surface.