Rooftoppers is fast becoming a classic in children’s literature and is compared to the likes of Roald Dahl and Eva Ibbotson.
It’s a fantastic story and beautifully imaginative with visions of different areas of Paris, as seen from roof tops. The main character, Sophie, has been lost and is found by Charles Maxim as she floated as a baby, in a cello case in the English Channel.
Despite being told that she was lost in a shipwreck, Sophie thinks otherwise and with Charles, finds herself in Paris with Matteo, a boy who walks tightropes and lives in the sky.
A beautiful story about pursuing your dreams and never ignoring the possible.
Published by Faber, Rooftoppers was winner of the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and short listed for the CILIP Carnegie Medal.
Katherine Rundell is an author to watch and her other children’s story, The Girl Savage was her first book.
Available to buy through Dolphin Booksellers, Amazon link at £5.24
We recommend this book for 9 – 12 years.
Sue Martin Dolphin Booksellers and Books Go Walkabout
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