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|reviewer=Tanja Jennings
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Zinging and tingling with magic the first book in ''The Unmapped Chronicles'' is another inventive gem from Abi Elphinstone. In Sky Song her enchanted world reflected the terrible calamity of the refugee crisis. Her new venture Rumblestar follows explores the haphazard adventures ravages of climate change in the anxious 11-year-old Casper Tock who timetables his every movement21st century wrapped within a charmed realm of sky tumbling waterfalls and frozen lightning where sun scamps spin dazzlethread and shatterblasts rage. Lyrical, makes countless to do lists imaginative and is hounded by wealthy bullies bursting with the absurdly humorous Roald Dahl style gobblefunk words and appropriate names of Candida Cashmere Jumps and Leopold Splattercash. He stumbles across a magical portal by accident, just like Lucy quirky love of Narnia famefood, meets a feisty girl troubled by her past and the message at its heart is plunged into a perilous quest. In a kingdom where the dark forces one of Midnights threaten the weather Marvels (equated here to the miracle of nature) conjured by magical creaturescourage, only unlikely heroes can battle against evilfortitude and friendship.
|rating=4.5
|buy=Yes
Rumblestar is just the first in Abi's exciting new series, The Unmapped Chronicles, which will go on to explore the other kingdoms she has created. Imagined as standalone quests they will follow different protagonists in new incredible settings. Abi revealed in an interview with In the Reading Corner that Jungledrop, planned for release in the spring of 2020, promises more delights including deep glints, glow in the dark rainforests, gobblequick trees, unicycles powered by jungle spit and Pretty Please plants. There is also a prequel Ever dark [especially released to celebrate World Book Day] set before the events of Rumblestar, but directly impacting on the protagonists' dramatic adventures which readers might like to have a look at too.
For more fantastical peregrinations why not take a trip to the Narnian landscape of Erkenwald in [[Sky Song by Abi Elphinstone|Sky Song]] or visit the realm of [[The Dreamsnatcher by Abi Elphinstone|VThe Dreamsnatcher]] for a trilogy of dark magic served with a helping of bravery and camaraderie.
If you enjoy encountering danger, meeting magical beasts and being transported to other worlds you should fly on a magic carpet via [[The Thousand Nights and One Night by David Walser and Jan Pienkowski]] to the wonderful [[The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis]], then ''travel on to the second star to the right and straight on till morning'' where you’ll arrive in [[J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan: The Graphic Novel by Stref]]. We also have a review of [[Jungle Drop (The Unmapped Chronicles) by Abi Elphinstone]].
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