The Voyage of the Poppy Kettle

Let me get the negatives out first. As a story of the imagination that is trying to link into a factual world, I don't think it was necessary to have lizards of the Galapagos 'Fire Breathing'. That is a very small complaint. What I loved about the tail was it was possible to imagine these tiny people in their grand journey running into the problems they had, the adventures they had. The illustrations are wonderful. And I do like the linking of historical events into the tale. From Peru, to Pacific Islands and Finally Australia it is a trip of the imagination, but a trip you can imagine would be real if tiny people were leaving Peru in search of a new home. My daughter asks me to read it to her over and over again. Looks like I'm going to have to pick up some more of his books.