Monday 22 September 2014

Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell

Since being published in 2013, Rooftoppers has won the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. It was also short-listed for the 2014 CILIP Carnegie Medal and was my favourite of the nominated books.

So why would you want to read Rooftoppers? Well, it merges fantasy and historical fiction with vivid imagery and a beautiful, lyrical prose style, in a truly heartwarming story.  Our heroine is Sophie, an orphan who was found as a baby floating in a cello case in the middle of the English Channel, wrapped in a Beethoven score. Convinced that her mother survived the shipwreck, she sets off with her eccentric guardian Charles for Paris, where she meets Matteo and a group of homeless children who live up on the rooftops of the city. Tightrope walking across streets and precipices, they set out on an incredible adventure to search for Sophie's mother.

Fans of Eva Ibbotson and Sally Gardner will love this uplifting adventure about pursuing your dreams and never giving up hope.

If you've enjoyed Rooftoppers, you may like to try Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead or Wonder by R J Palacio.

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