Mayowa and the Sea of Words
by Chibundu Onuzo, Paula Zorite
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Pub Date 20 Jun 2024 | Archive Date 13 Jun 2024
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (UK & ANZ) | Bloomsbury Children's Books
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Description
The first title in a dazzlingly imaginative adventure trilogy about one girl's power to change the world through the magic of book-jumping.
Perfect for fans of Pages & Co. Amari and the Night Brothers and The Book of Stolen Dreams.
WARNING: DO NOT JUMP ON THIS BOOK!
Have you ever jumped on a book? Perhaps not. Most people would think it was a rather unusual thing to do.
Ten-year-old Mayowa has always thought that her Grandpa Edward, who dyes his beard emerald green and jumps on books in private, is rather unusual too. Until one day she jumps on a book for herself, and uncovers a huge family secret …
Mayowa can book jump.
By jumping on a book, she can harness the emotions inside it and channel them directly into other people. And when the opportunity to use her power to save the lives of countless refugees presents itself, Mayowa wants to jump in with both feet.
But Mayowa and her grandpa aren’t the only book jumpers in existence. And not everybody wants to use this power for good …
Brimming with heart, Mayowa and the Sea of Words is a modern classic in the making. Perfect for everyone who knows the true power of a good book …
Available Editions
EDITION | Hardcover |
ISBN | 9781526660992 |
PRICE | £12.99 (GBP) |
PAGES | 304 |
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Featured Reviews
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy of this book.
I am afraid this book was not for me.
On the plus side, Mayowa is a likeable character although she seem to me to be very mature and sensible for her age, especially in today's world where I feel that children are generally quite immature. Mayowa's relationship with her grandfather and her loving family is very nicely portrayed. .
On the minus side, I just couldn't buy into the concept of releasing emotions somehow stored in particular books from previous readers and I dont like the term logosalter either.
After Mayowa develops her ability the pace slows and I was just starting to wonder how a whole book could be made out of the book jumping when luckily the villains are introduced and it picks up a bit. I think the villains showed potential, especially Danielle but they were under developed and no motive was given for their actions,
The footnotes are occasionally quite amusing but also very annoying, especially when, as in the ebook I read, you have to flip through a few pages to get the notes. I expect this will work better in a hard copy.
Finally, I think the book is too political and far too biased. It very much over simplifies the social issues of immigration/asylum seeking etc., to the extent that I think it might be quite difficult to use the book as a springboard for debate. with a child.
I see this is the first in a series. To be fair, I might read the next one to see which Important Issue we are championing this time.
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