This book was specially written and published for World Book Day 2008. World Book Day is a worldwide celebration of books and reading. In 2008 it was their eleventh anniversary of World Book Day in the United Kingdom and Ireland. World Book Day is made possible by generous sponsorship from National Book Tokens, participating publishers, authors and booksellers. Booksellers who accept the £1 Book Token kindly agree to bear the full cost of redeeming it. I used to be obsessed with World Book Day when I was younger, mainly because well-known children and adult novelists had contributed by writing a book especially for World Book Day. However recently things have ...  Read the complete review

Odd is a young Norseman, with the misfortune of having a gimp leg whose father, a woodcutter, drowned during a Viking raid some time back. His mother remarried to a fat widower who cares little for the boy as he has his own sons. When the winter seems to last longer than normal, Odd decides to leave for the forest, where he comes across a bear, who got his paw trapped in the tree. He helps the bear and meets an eagle and a fox, who tell him they are in fact the gods Loki, Odin and Thor, who had been outcast from their hom Asgard by the Frost Giants who managed to trick Loki to giving them Thor's hammer. Odd decides to travel with them to Asgard and ...  Read the complete review