The Downunder Kid edition by Peter M Clutterbuck Katharine Smith Children eBooks
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The Downunder Kid is an extremely funny book for children approaching and undergoing the transition into secondary school life. Despite its light-hearted nature, there is an underlying serious message, about bullying and the effect this can have on children – including the bullies themselves.
Full of colourful characters, The Downunder Kid tells the tale of Sam Bond – a small, intelligent and kind-natured boy who happens upon a tunnel through the earth, from London to the Australian outback. Desperate to escape the school bullies, Sam takes the plunge and finds himself on the other side of the world. There, he realises that bullying is not confined to his school in England.
Through good fortune rather than bravery, Sam survives a serious altercation with a gigantic crocodile known to the terrified locals as Whacko Jacko; the result of a rather nasty practical joke by the jealous Tiger Kelly. Sam is very forgiving and emerges triumphant. Through his caring, thoughtful attitude, he and Tiger form a strong friendship.
After forging an everlasting friendship with his Australian friends, Sam finally but reluctantly returns to his home in London where his fellow students find him a very different boy to the one they previously knew.
The Downunder Kid is a book for adults to enjoy with children. Some of the jokes may go over smaller heads but there are plenty of laughs for everyone, and a heart-warming ending which will leave any reader with a smile on their face.
Peter Clutterbuck is the Australian-born son of a Welshman who left the UK for Australia in 1916. Peter has had over 300 books published ‘Downunder’ and many internationally. These range from educational texts, many of which have been translated into languages such as Mandarin, Russian and German, to works of fiction, and even a joke book with famous Australians’ favourite jokes.
The Downunder Kid edition by Peter M Clutterbuck Katharine Smith Children eBooks
My 9 year old son and I have just finished reading this book and it was very entertaining and well written! We both laughed at the Aussie humour and felt it also had a great underlying message regarding bullies. Would definitely recommend this bookProduct details
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The Downunder Kid edition by Peter M Clutterbuck Katharine Smith Children eBooks Reviews
The Downunder Kid is a children's story for older primary school children around the age of 11 years. It has two settings, London and Australia.
Sam Bond lives in Littlebury Lane in a London suburb and is in his final year of primary school, he's a small boy and is threatened by local bullies Wally and Arthur Fletcher. Whilst avoiding the boys Sam asks to do some extra school research in the school library cellar. Here he discovers a book called A Journey Downunder from a boy called Zachary Tyler written around 1798. It tells of the adventures of this 12 year old boy who dug a tunnel from London to Australia.
Terrified of Wally and Arthur, Sam runs home and frantically starts digging in his garden following instructions on how to get to Australia. A couple of days later Sam finds himself upside down on the other side of the world.
Advised to get anti-gravity boots to stop him falling off the world, Sam discovers friendly people in a place of heat and flies. He enrols at the local school and finds inner strength to face the bullies in a lucky turn of events. He uses his adventures and experience to beat the London based bullies when he returns to London via the tunnel.
This is a fun book about school bullies. There is a list of Australian terminology at the end of the book. There are quite a few long grown -up words and expressions which added to the Australian slang may make this book challenging for some readers. One small point, I wasn't convinced about the anti-gravity boots, children today are well travelled and know about countries all over the world from school lessons, plus television brings them right into our homes and although a fun idea, would they really believe you might fall off the world?
This review is based on a free copy of the book give to me by Publishing Push.
My 9 year old son and I have just finished reading this book and it was very entertaining and well written! We both laughed at the Aussie humour and felt it also had a great underlying message regarding bullies. Would definitely recommend this book
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