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A magical and uplifting tale. When Felix’s plane crashes, he finds himself in a small remote village. The only thing he has salvaged from the plane is a polaroid camera with ten remaining pictures. At first the villagers are suspicious, but they soon enter into a mission to find the ten most important subjects for the photographs. And each photo that Felix takes seems to have a magical effect . BLGeraldine McCaughrean is the winner of the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award.
Gentle story of survival and change. I loved the book. I thought the lesson or big idea in the book was great. I used this book in my 4th & 5th grade literature groups. Although, they could read the book they had a difficult time grasping the big idea. They didn’t seem to enjoy it as much as I did. So maybe it would be more appropriate for higher level students.
This book is about a man (NOT a boy, as one reviewer states) who survives a plane crash in a remote village. He finds a tribe of people who speak English, yet do not know what cameras or photographs are. In each chapter he decides what photograph to take (he has 10 left on his poloroid). The characters are flat, there is no conflict to move the story forward, and the ending is just too easy. Not until the final photo is taken does the man remember he has a family back in London. Then, conveniently enough, a helicopter appears, litteraly a Deus ex Machina, to save him. Then the author tries to make things fun by suggesting the whole tale has taken place in his imagination.