all the pieces and we can go home.â
Surprisingly, he did so without any argument, but then tossed them into the river before they could stop him.
Chris whistled for Tan and winked at his sister. âOf course, thereâs still one more thing you have to do, Luke,â he said with a smirk.
âOh, yeah â and whatâs that?â
âStart thinking what you might say to people about what you got up to in the last hour,â Chris told him. âThat hasnât been wiped out, rememberâ¦â
About the Author
Time travel! What a mind-bending concept it is. Just imagine having your own time machine and being able to travel back into the past â or even forwards into the future! Impossible? Well, not in the world of science fiction, one of the main areas of interest in my writing. I may be better known for all my sports stories for children, but Iâve written many time-travelling tales too.
Time and Again
began as an idea in one of my notebooks before I let the characters loose on the page â or at least on the computer screen â and then they helped me to write the story during the drafting process.
By pressing a red button on an old watch, the children experience a time slip of one hour. Not long, maybe, but many things can happen in that extra time, especially whenthey are able to change what originally took place â for better or worse.
I have always enjoyed writing and had my sights set on a career in journalism after graduating from Leicester University in the early 1970s. Instead, I somehow found myself teaching in primary schools for about 20 years. The best part of the job, as far as I was concerned, was being able to run various sports clubs and coach the youngsters in a wide range of activities like football, gymnastics, cricket and athletics. It turned out to be very good experience for writing for children and I left teaching to concentrate on doing just that. I must have had about 80 books published since the first one appeared in 1980.
My wife, Joy, and I love rough collie dogs, like Lassie in the stories, and we now share our home in a Leicestershire village with one called Rocky. He always gives us a good excuse to leave our desks and enjoy walks in the local countryside and along nearby canal towpaths.
â
The bony hand zoomed right out of the screen and grabbed him
.â
When James is kidnapped by aliens, he
canât believe his luck. They want to
transform his feeble human body and
James can have whatever superpowers he
likes. He chooses super-speed, super-brains
and super-strength. But James soon starts
to realise he might have got slightly
more than he asked forâ¦
â
Itâs just as well Yours Truly has a breathtakingly
brilliant, scintillatingly surefire gem of an idea
up her sleeve
.â
Thereâs never a dull moment in the Bell
household. Fresh from success on Broadway, they
now star in their very own reality TV show. Plus
thereâs the mystery of Ken Undrumâs long lost
love to solve, the Nativity play to rehearse, and
Bryony has special plans to make sure the
coming Christmas will be full of surprisesâ¦
âThose who enter Inverscreech should be wary.
Those walls contain some deep, dark secrets.â
Young ghosts Spooker, Goof and Holly are
off to a remote Scottish castle to make a
video about how to haunt. But the castle
turns out to be less lonely than expected. The
arrival of a bunch of Americans and a series
of spooky goings on give the ghosts rather
more to deal with than they bargained forâ¦
First published 2005 by
A&C Black Publishers Ltd
37 Soho Square, London, W1D 3QZ
www.acblack.com
Text copyright © 2005 Rob Childs
Illustrations copyright © 2005 Nicola Slater
The rights of Rob Childs and Nicola Slater to be identified as the author and illustrator of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Print ISBN
Surprisingly, he did so without any argument, but then tossed them into the river before they could stop him.
Chris whistled for Tan and winked at his sister. âOf course, thereâs still one more thing you have to do, Luke,â he said with a smirk.
âOh, yeah â and whatâs that?â
âStart thinking what you might say to people about what you got up to in the last hour,â Chris told him. âThat hasnât been wiped out, rememberâ¦â
About the Author
Time travel! What a mind-bending concept it is. Just imagine having your own time machine and being able to travel back into the past â or even forwards into the future! Impossible? Well, not in the world of science fiction, one of the main areas of interest in my writing. I may be better known for all my sports stories for children, but Iâve written many time-travelling tales too.
Time and Again
began as an idea in one of my notebooks before I let the characters loose on the page â or at least on the computer screen â and then they helped me to write the story during the drafting process.
By pressing a red button on an old watch, the children experience a time slip of one hour. Not long, maybe, but many things can happen in that extra time, especially whenthey are able to change what originally took place â for better or worse.
I have always enjoyed writing and had my sights set on a career in journalism after graduating from Leicester University in the early 1970s. Instead, I somehow found myself teaching in primary schools for about 20 years. The best part of the job, as far as I was concerned, was being able to run various sports clubs and coach the youngsters in a wide range of activities like football, gymnastics, cricket and athletics. It turned out to be very good experience for writing for children and I left teaching to concentrate on doing just that. I must have had about 80 books published since the first one appeared in 1980.
My wife, Joy, and I love rough collie dogs, like Lassie in the stories, and we now share our home in a Leicestershire village with one called Rocky. He always gives us a good excuse to leave our desks and enjoy walks in the local countryside and along nearby canal towpaths.
â
The bony hand zoomed right out of the screen and grabbed him
.â
When James is kidnapped by aliens, he
canât believe his luck. They want to
transform his feeble human body and
James can have whatever superpowers he
likes. He chooses super-speed, super-brains
and super-strength. But James soon starts
to realise he might have got slightly
more than he asked forâ¦
â
Itâs just as well Yours Truly has a breathtakingly
brilliant, scintillatingly surefire gem of an idea
up her sleeve
.â
Thereâs never a dull moment in the Bell
household. Fresh from success on Broadway, they
now star in their very own reality TV show. Plus
thereâs the mystery of Ken Undrumâs long lost
love to solve, the Nativity play to rehearse, and
Bryony has special plans to make sure the
coming Christmas will be full of surprisesâ¦
âThose who enter Inverscreech should be wary.
Those walls contain some deep, dark secrets.â
Young ghosts Spooker, Goof and Holly are
off to a remote Scottish castle to make a
video about how to haunt. But the castle
turns out to be less lonely than expected. The
arrival of a bunch of Americans and a series
of spooky goings on give the ghosts rather
more to deal with than they bargained forâ¦
First published 2005 by
A&C Black Publishers Ltd
37 Soho Square, London, W1D 3QZ
www.acblack.com
Text copyright © 2005 Rob Childs
Illustrations copyright © 2005 Nicola Slater
The rights of Rob Childs and Nicola Slater to be identified as the author and illustrator of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Print ISBN
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