Leonora Bolt: Secret Inventor

If someone - say a terribly smart little girl with phenomenal inventing skills - were to build a machine that could shake together Ada Twist: Scientist & A Series of Unfortunate Events' Violet Baudelaire to create hilarious and brand-spanking new character, then you'd have Leonora Bolt - a wondrousl......more

What a fantastic whirlwind invention-based adventure! I loved the inventors' world built in this, I loved the isolated lighthouse island setting, I loved the kooky inventions, but most of all I really liked Leonora. She's a star! And with her self-belief and super-inventing-brainpower she's bound fo......more

I finished the last... maybe 100-ish pages in one hour (more or less). That showed how much I enjoyed this book (and because it has illustrations and big fonts so it's faster to read them). What made me intrigued with this book is the storyline and the quirky characters. I realized I enjoyed a few c......more

It is brilliantly written. The story flows with lots of proper laugh out loud funny bits. The illustrations are wonderful and very engaging as part of the story. This is definitely a book I would recommend. For those younger children who are just on the point of moving from picture books to chapter......more

This one is for the older readers and just under 200 pages long. A tale of adventure, uncovered truths and pure genius inventions. Bound to set your imagination on fire with all these wierd and wacky food inventions, machines and gadgets. Leonora has only ever known the island she has lived on with......more