With a love of aviation I just knew that Monkey would adore today’s Blog Birthday Review and Giveaway – Time Travelling Toby. The book is written by Graham Jones and features illustrations by Neil Parkinson. Bringing History alive is something I’ve always been passionate about, and this book does just that.
With the aim to bring English history to life, the first book in a series, Time Traveling Toby visits the battle of Britain.
The story of Toby a boy living in un unremarkable village, with its rhyming text, and a magic time traveling car is an easy to read book. The story tells of Toby and his brothers and their journey back in time. We start with Toby and his brothers facing the German bombers at Dover, can they raise the alarm in time?
As soon as this book arrived Daddy P’s eyes lit up. He isn’t a great one for books and reading. But I could see the title had caught his attention. Time for story time with Daddy P Monkey!
Monkey sat enthralled as Daddy P read the story of Time Travelling Toby and the Battle of Britain. Monkey has seen various WW2 planes at airshows we’ve been too. He knows exactly what a Spitfire looks like.
We all loved this story, we get introduced to Toby and his family and get to see his amazing time travelling machine – a sports car complete with Kevlar reinforced tyres, no less. You know me and cars! Toby and his two brothers take a trip to 1940 and Dover and arrive just as the Battle of Britain is about to start. Our hero has to warn Biggin Hill of the imminent arrival of the Luftwaffe!
I think any child aged 4 years and over would enjoy reading this story, it’s fun and educational. At the end of the book is a blueprint of the time travelling machine itself along with a couple of fact pages relating to the Battle of Britain.
We can’t wait for Toby’s next adventure to be released. A meeting with Lord Nelson would also be right up our street. Daddy P is dusting off his HMS Victory model as I type.
I’m really pleased to be able to offer you the chance to win a copy of Time Travelling Toby here, and for a second chance, why not pop over to The Soup Dragon Says, she also has a copy to giveaway there too!
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as a woman prob not too far back in time, 60s could be fun though 🙂
The early 1900s!
I’d go back to Edwardian times, the era my house was built in, would love to see how people lived back then.
The 1950’s/60’s
60’s
I would travel back to the early 00s!
I would travel back to the 70’s
1920s provided I was rich!
I would travel back to see the people of Peru making the nazca lines and find out how they made such fantastic drawings when they werent able to see them from the air. And also how they knew what the animals were considering that they never would have come into contact with them.
the 80’s..Ive never really come out of them so should fit right back in 🙂
To the Elizabethan court, so long as could leave if things got a bit hairy 🙂
I’d love to see Henry VIII and all his drama!! I’m a history fanatic ♥
The 90’s and talk with my younger self about the future 😛
I tried to comment on the other link, but it says I appear to be a spambot, perhaps there’s been overkill on the ‘i sent you messages’ – can I still enter?
Strange – I’ll email Tina for you as others seem to be commenting ok.
878 AD I want to know if King Alfred really left the cakes to burn
The 60s so that I could enjoy them all over again.
I would travel back to the age of the Dinosaurs and try and tame one as a pet, to bring back to the future with me!
Age of the Dinosaurs as I’d love to see what they were like
i’d travel back to my school days but i’d take some hair straighteners with me!
Tudor times. I’d love to have been a member of Elizabeth I’s court.
So would I – my absolute favoute period in history
I’d like to travel back to the time when dinosaurs were still around.
I would travel back to the early 1900’s but only if I was above stairs and a lady!
The Roaring Twenties
The Swinging Sixties
The 1930’s when my Gran was a child 🙂
elvis comeback special concert 1968
The 1970s, would love to live then…..the music, the fashion…
The 1960’s to see what they were really like.
I’d go back to the 80’s just so that I could go to Wham’s final concert. Mum wouldn’t ake me.
I would like to travel back to the Victorian error .
Back to the eighties , party music lots of fun xxx
The Jurassic period to see the dinosaurs
1800’s to meet ancestors and see how they lived
I would love to go back and see the Dinosaurs !! I just can’t believe how big they must have been !! x
Lunch time. I’m hungry again.
Victorian times – love the posh frocks (do not want to be a servant though – as a well to do)
The 80’s
1840s Scotland to ask my 2xgreat grandfather where in Ireland he came from
I liked to go back to see some of my ancestors – probably my grandparents first.
Jurassic, time of dinosaurs
oooo back to my teens
Silent movie era
I’d be interested to travel back to the 1920’s to see the flapper girls dancing and having fun. Great fashions! 🙂
1970s – Disco!
The 22nd Century – to seee what is different 🙂
i would like to have been around in the victorian times x
my school days
Uni days
1999/2000 the years that I was in my last years of school. Wish I treasured it more!!! and studied harder….
What time would you travel back to?
If l had the option l would travel back to the dawn of mankind to see the dificulties they had to face
1920s
the roaring 20s, although, thinking about it, I’m not so sure. I would most likely have been a servant and not partying my life away.
60’s
the 1920’s with all the flappers
1950/60’s 🙂
To the ’60s so I could wear a huge bouffant on my head 🙂
British history is fascinating,my favourite eras are the days of the Cousins’ Wars and the Tudors
The 1950’s love the music and the fashion
Back to when my nan and grandad were still alive
Travelling back to a time pre birth, would one exist ? if so then to the days of the dinasaurs when modern weapons and acquired knowledge – with access to info via tablets etc to the present which is the pasts future to avoid negative scenarios……
The Victorian times
The wild west!
I would go back to when the Dinosaurs roamed the land
I would go to the sixties. Time of great music and peace and love
I’d like to go to the Middle Ages 🙂
Would quite like to go back to the 50’s x
The Tudors but would like to be a fly on the wall rather than be involved in all the courtly politics 🙂
I think I’d go back to the 90’s and throw all my shellsuits in the bin
Victorian 🙂
1980s before my Nanny got cancer for 3rd time that killed her
To Henry VIII’s time, I’d love to see what really happened and how scary he actually was.
The 60s, it was a great time for me that I would love to see again 🙂
The 1920’s
the 50’s
the 1920’s for the outfits!
Victorian era
ancient Egypt. Imagine what we could learn!
I would travel back to world war 2
The 1920’s
About 9 years ago when I first met my husband
The time when i didn’t look so old!
I would like to check the victorian times.
Fab giveaway, i’d travel back to the 50s for the outfits 🙂
1950’s
The 1960s