The Voyage of QV66

By Penelope Lively

Book Overview

People have evacuated the Earth and fled to Mars, leaving behind rubbish and animals. Five animal friends must strike off on a hazardous journey from the north of England to London with a curious... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0749703601
• ISBN13: 9780749703608
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Egmont Childrens Books
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

GET THIS BACK IN PRINT!

Really! I had to track this down at a library in order to read it, and I'd like my son to be able to read it when he's old enough. It's pretty cool sci-fantasy for kids. It doesn't even seem dated. If you can get your hands on it, I think kids still too young for The Borribles will enjoy this less-dark journey instead (even though the background story is still pretty freaky and dark).

Interesting view of a future world

In an England abandoned by People, covered in water and inhabitated only by scavenging animals, a small group of friends set out on a journey. Pal the dog, Ned the horse, Freda the cow, Pansy the kitten, Offa the pigeon, and Stanley, who doesn't know what he is. In order to find out his true idenity, the group takes a boat, the QV66, and begins the long and difficult journey from Carlisle to London Zoo. For there, they are sure, they will find the answer. Wit and wordplay abound, and the animals are delightfully ignorant of the human items they find, and their goofy explainations of them are often very funny. A fun, lighthearted read.

Fantastic!

This book is - indubitably - the most enjoyable, intriguing, humourous, atmospheric, inventive and affecting novel for children yet written.