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National Year of Reading

March 21, 2008

You know sometimes when you really enjoy something and you look forward to it for ages and you don’t want it to end? Like your birthday party, or Mum's incredible Christmas dinner, or the summer holidays, which seem to stretch out forever?

I’m currently blurbing (I get to read children’s books and blurb them - and if you’re wondering, it is as much fun as it sounds) a book called The Lost Island of Tamarind by Nadia Aguiar. Even though I’m not even halfway through it, I’m trying not to read it too quickly because I’m sure I’ll sulk when it’s finished.

Sulking was okay when I was 7, now I’m 27 it’s not but I can’t help it (I’m not actually stamping my foot by the way), I'm hooked and torn between can’t-wait-to-read-it-all-now and don’t-want-it-to-end. I started reading it on a cold, miserable, damp, drizzly, frizzy-hair-weather day – doooooom!

          

So to suddenly find myself aboard the Pamela Jane on the warm blue Atlantic, sailing towards a   mysterious island where the sand is white, the water turquoise and the tide pools are lit by the moon was so exciting - I could practically hear the sea. There’s a curious green parrot and flying fish and I’m about to meet someone called Rodrigo. AND there are pirates. As you know from this blog, we’re big fans of pirates.

                         

I don’t want to give too much away and anyway I can’t, but I for one can’t wait for the rest of Maya, Simon and baby Penny’s adventures on the island known as Tamarind. This is how it looks in my head – and that’s the beauty of reading. It’s completely up to you what every new face and place looks like. You’ll have to wait a few months before this particular treat sails onto the shelves; I’m lucky enough to carry on the escapade over the Easter holiday – but that’s the perk of doing what I do.

Land HO!
Sarah Kettle
Puffin Copywriter

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