There’s no improving on perfection—in this case Fleming’s adventure story (featuring the unconventional family Pott and their magically refurbished motorcar) with the original, transcendent Burningham illustrations, first published in 1964. The confiding informality of the storyteller’s voice; the nonstop and immensely child-pleasing adventures; the spunk of young Jeremy and Jemima; and of course the ingenious personality of Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang herself—all combine to make an ideal family read-aloud. This handsome fiftieth-anniversary gift edition is ... so very welcome.
—Horn Book
This is why the book holds up, 50 years after its original publication: its sense of the world as an inexplicable but also miraculous place.
—Los Angeles Times Online
Mad Max: Fury Road is among the best action films of 2015. Maybe the best of the decade. It’s packed full of high-octane apocalyptic mayhem, set in a world that revers its rides to the point that fuel is an object of worship. This led me to consider the other car-centered speculative fiction. Sure, there’s the occasional cool car in […]
Authors are just like any other creative professional in that they tend to find something they’re good at, stick with it, and keep going as long as they can. Some authors do spy novels, for example, or romance novels, or horror novels. But then they some of them get restless, or feel the great call […]