Like most tweens, he decides to take advantage of this situation, which results in an outlandish excursion to China for the world's largest roller coaster. Oh and the other children who went to that trip with them as well, parental guidance is really important and parents nowadays seemed to focus too much on materialistic values, like the importance of winning and money.

As he did with Millions, Boyce brings in deep philosophical ideas in a kid-friendly, convincing, and moving way.Steven has also written his own picture book ‘Princess Daisy and the Dragon and the Nincompoop Knights’ and his new illustrated fiction series ‘Genie and Teeny’. Pan Macmillan) Liam Digby seems to be too big for everything from his child-blazed blazer; Liam is definitely adult sized.

Then, if you’re successful, the ‘Dad’ amongst the children, what if you realise all this role playing is not Cosmic at all, but very scary? It reminded me of Roald Dahl not just because of the humour but because the five fathers and five kids winning a competition to visit some exciting new place and do challenges is highly reminiscent of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He sort of won a contest for the world’s greatest dads and conned his classmate Florida into pretending to be his daughter.Well as an elementary school librarian children's literature is my business (and fortunately for me also my passion).