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Overview:

Title: Time Tub Travellers and The Silk Thief
Author: Claire Linney
Published: March 2024
Genre: Middle Grade, Historical
Themes: Friendship, true history

One sentence summary: When Zula is told there weren’t any Black tudors, she takes matters into her own hands to prove her point.

One sentence review: Important lessons on representation through history, a must read!

Review:

I’ve read YA my whole adult life and recently I’d been asking myself why it stopped there and why I don’t include middle grade in my reading spectrum. So here I am changing that. And where better to start than Claire Linney’s debut, Time Tub Travellers and The Silk Thief?

I really enjoyed this one. Its got important themes, fun characters and a pacy plot. It’s engaging and I absolutely would have loved having pretend adventures in a bath tub when I was younger.

Black Tudors weren’t touched on when I learnt about the time period and I love seeing this representation now, it’s so so important. I loved the historical details, it’s clearly a really well researched book and the authors passion shines through. I’ll definitely be picking up book two when it comes out!

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Last updated 23/12/2024