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Overview:

Title: Time Tub Travelers Circus Mystery
Author: Claire Linney
Published: April 2025
Genre: Historical
Themes: Black British History, Friendship, Time Travel

One sentence summary: Zulu and Milo are ready for another adventure in the bathtub time machine, they’re wondering where to visit next when they find Pablo Fanques poster in Zulu’s grandmothers antique shop – perfect!

One sentence review: The perfect middle grade read.

Review:

Zulu and Milo are ready for another adventure in the bathtub time machine and this time they’re prepared with tuna sandwiches and more! They’re wondering where to visit next when they find Pablo Fanques poster in Zulu’s grandmothers antique shop – perfect!

I love Claire’s work. The follow up to Time Tub Travellers and The Silk Thief is just as charming and bursting with character. Zulu and Milo are great characters to follow through the books. It’s great to see the characters grow in confidence and learn about themselves. Perfect middle grade reads.

Linney’s work is seamless blend of fact and fiction and I love that I’m learning something each time I read her work. I can’t wait for Time Tub Travellers to return next year and read about more brilliant people she’s uncovered. 

I can’t recommend this book and Time Tub Travellers and the Silk Thief enough. The perfect middle grade read.

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Last updated 02/05/2025