The Fantastic Flying Journey

by Gerald Durrell

Book Overview

Great-Uncle Lancelot, redoubtable explorer and enthusiastic naturalist, takes his niece and twin nephews on an extraordinary journey around the world, introducing them to a wide variety of animals. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671649825
• ISBN13: 9780671649821
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

By Matthew, aged 8

The Fantastic Flying Journey I enjoyed this book because it was fun, interesting, educational and good. I also enjoyed it because I'd learnt a lot more than if I hadn't read it. I especially liked the part where Lancelot said that he never opened letters in case they were something bad. This is silly because they might be good very often. It was very interesting that penguins would live in Patagonia on sand-dunes. I thought they would've lived on other surfaces such as rock or a little bit of sand and maybe some ice. This book was educational because it told me some stuff I didn't know before. It also gave me a good idea of animals in the world. I'd like to go around the world in a balloon that was pretty much a big bamboo house. It was interesting how it was powered- by electric eels and was crewed by spiders who spun webs for clothes and for closing up cracks in the balloon. I think quite a few people that I know would like this book.

Great "Living" book

My 7yo son wouldn't let me put this down! This story is about a very exciting journey around the world in a hot air balloon house. It conveys factual geographical and natural history information in such a gentle and extraordinary way. As the kids travel from continent to continent, they encounter many indigenous wildlife and discover interesting facts about them. Great read!

This book was fantastic!

My mom and I read this book together. I really liked that the animals could talk to the humans. I was a good story. I liked it when they went around the world, reading about all the different places and the animals that lived there. - Marie, age 7 and mom.

We love using it in our social studies unit...

We have used this book as a basis for our study of around the world and learning about the continents. We would love to find 3 more copies for all teachers. We have not been able to locate these. Can you give an address of where to find them in England? A former student got one for us from a relative who lived in England in less than 4 days. Here in the states we cannot locate any.