The best childrens books for adults (Truckers - Terry Pratchett)

Member Name: TimothyC

Product:	Truckers - Terry Pratchett
Date:	17/07/00 (110 review reads)
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Advantages: Fun for all the family

Disadvantages: erm?

This is a trilogy of books about the nomes. They are very little people who are about 1 inch tall and move so much faster than us, which is why we can’t see them and these are their adventures in our world.

Truckers
The story is about Masklin the young Nome who takes a band of nomes to safety and end up in The Store (Arnold Bros Est. 1905). Here they find other like them and also they find that they come from much farther than they think, as they are in-fact interstellar travellers who have crash-landed on Earth. When they find out from The Thing, the black box flight recorder from the crashed ship, that the store is to be demolished that is where the adventure really begins. How do you get hundred’s of nomes to safety?

Diggers
This book is interesting as it gets to about 3 chapters into the book when both the action in this book and in the third book, Wings, occur simultaneously. The story in this one centres not on our hero from Truckers, Masklin, but his friend Grimma and her problems. At the end of the first book the nomes end up in a quarry and it is from here that Masklin and a select band of nomes set out to recover their spaceship that is parked in orbit. Grimma is left in charge, sort-of, and it is not long before they discover that the humans want the quarry back. This is the story of their fight to remain and eventual dramatic departure leaving by the Great Yellow one, JCB.

Wings
The last of the nome trilogy and I think the best. This takes over from the point in Diggers where Masklin leaves the quarry to get the nomes home. The problem is that they have to get to America and place The Thing, which is the black box flight recorder from their crashed ship, on a satellite so that they can return home. They first have to fly to America on a plane then get The Thing in the right place at the right time and the clock is ticking. Will they succeed, of course they do, but the way they do it is inter
esting. This book gets my award for the most unusual usage of a Bromeliad, read it to find out why!
This trilogy is Terry Pratchett at his best he gives a story that appeals on two levels to both the adult and child readers, as there is humour to reach all levels, as well as drama and some sadness.

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