Book Review

The Terrible thing that happened to Barnaby Brocket

By Amy

This story is about a boy named Barnaby Brocket. He had a brother called Henry, a sister called Melanie and parents Alistair, the dad and Eleanor, the mum. The family wanted to live a normal life. When Eleanor gave birth to Barnaby, she was shocked. Barnaby floated into the ceiling and bumped his head into it. Having a baby that floated wasn’t normal. Eleanor gave him a very heavy rack sack to keep him on the ground. One day when he turned eight years old, his parents had a plan. The plan was to let him go. So the following day, Eleanor brought Barnaby to a random place and cut off his rack sack and soon he floated up and up and up.

In the story,  he met lots of people and when he finally reached back home he went to the hospital. After a few days, he went loose from the hospital bed and floated up, up and up again.

My favourite character was Barnaby Brocket. He was very courageous because he knew he had to get back to his family even though they didn’t want him. The author described him as an extraordinary boy that floated and couldn’t stop floating.

There was a conflict when his parents argued whether to let him go or not. Eleanor wanted to let him go but,  Alistair didn’t want to let him go. It didn’t take long till Alistair finally made up his mind to let Barnaby go.

The author wanted the readers to give the message of believing in self. If you don’t believe in yourself you won’t be able to do what do think you might be able to do.

I enjoyed this book very much. The author used fascinating adjectives to describe Barnaby Brocket. I recommend this to 10+.   I also recommend this book to people that like fantasy books.