The thing is, the doorway to the island only opens for nine days every nine years, and almost nine years ago, the baby prince was kidnapped by an obnoxious but wealthy woman. The time has finally come again for the portal (or gump) to open, and a SWAT team of magical folk has been assembled for the search and rescue mission.

This relatively simple expedition gets very complicated when they find that the prince doesn't live up to expectations, and isn't willing to return to the island. Fast moving, sometimes funny and always imaginative, you won't want to put this one down, even though you can figure out the plot "twist" very early on.

9 Years Later (The Gump Is Open Again)

The king et queen send a wizard, a hag, an ogre and a fey to retrieve the precious prince. They locate him at 'Trottle Towers' the home of a quad-multi-trilli-billionare (or sommat like dat) couple, who currently parent one Raymond Trottle (the prince). The rescuers come across a nice boy who lives there and mistake him for Raymond (the boy is actually named Ben) soon our rescuers are trying to persuade Raymond to come back to the island, and Odge, (the hag) gives him a mistmaker, a creature that releases mist when it heres something musical. But Raymond isn't persuaded so easily and they return to 'base' @ Kings Cross to mull over the situation.

Reviewed by Ebbson System Works 04204

The writing is a sheer delight, describing the fantastical characters with such charm that they are easy to visualise and become utterly believable. This book is perfect for 8 - 9 year-olds to read on their own - or would make a great bedtime story read nightly to 6 - 7 year-olds. It's exciting, magical, mysterious ... but best of all, there's nothing too frightening and plenty to make you laugh out loud!