Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Over the Moon (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Series #4)

by Frank Cottrell Boyce, Joe Berger (Illustrator)

Overview

From the award-winning Frank Cottrell Boyce comes the third official sequel to Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

The Tootings are stuck in 1966! Somebody’s stolen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and left them behind. But that’s not their biggest problem. Their biggest problem is that Little Harry’s been kidnapped by whoever stole their magical car. There’s only one solution: the Tootings must find the Potts — the family that originally built Chitty. Sharing their combined knowledge of how Chitty works, the families may stand a chance of rescuing Little Harry and finding the most brilliant car in the world. But a fiendish criminal has different plans, ones that involve flying Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to the moon and putting an explosive scheme into action.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763670382
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	04/08/2014
Series:	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Series , #4
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Lexile:	690L (what's this?)
File size:	10 MB
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Frank Cottrell Boyce is a writer of books for young readers, most notably Millions, winner of the Carnegie Medal, Cosmic, which garnered six starred reviews, and The Unforgotten Coat. He lives in England.

Joe Berger is an editorial cartoonist, animator, and illustrator. He has illustrated numerous books, including Hubble Bubble, Granny Trouble and Whiz! Pop! Granny, Stop! by Tracey Corderoy. Joe Berger lives in England.

Editorial Reviews

As he did with the rest of the series, Boyce keeps up a zippy pace and provides a fantastic, adventure-filled plot, taking the Tootings and Potts from the North Pole to the moon. But after all the dizzying action, he ends the series thoughtfully and happily, while still leaving a glimmer of a chance for more Chitty stories in the future.
—Booklist Online

Readers will be breathless as they follow the zany action to its conclusion. Black-and-white illustrations nicely augment the adventures and characters and the pacing is breakneck.
—School Library Journal

Let's face it, who doesn't love Chitty? This book is great for boys and girls alike. It is full of adventure and surprises.
—Newsday

From the Publisher

03/01/2014
Gr 3–6—In this third installment of Boyce's reboot of the classic fantasy/adventure series, the Tootings family, who restored the famous magical car, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, find themselves stranded in the past. They are in 1966 London and are unable to return home because their nemesis Tiny Jack has stolen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in their own time. Thus begins another series of wacky adventures as the Tootings team up with the Potts family (who own Chitty in 1966) to thwart Tiny Jack in his evil scheme to steal the world's most expensive vehicle-the Moon rover. Hijinks include the famous Big Ben clock tower blasting off into space, a desperate trip to the North Pole, and Tiny Jack's brazen theft of the Moon rover. Readers will be breathless as they follow the zany action to its conclusion. Black-and-white illustrations nicely augment the adventures and characters and the pacing is breakneck. Recommended for general purchase.—Gretchen Crowley, Alexandria City Public Libraries, VA

School Library Journal

Narrator David Tennant has a whale of a time performing the wacky adventures of the Tooting family and the magical car, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The production is joyous and high spirited and appropriately over-the-top. The Tootings are stuck in 1966; while they watch the only English victory in the World Cup, Tiny Jack, the most famous car thief in the world, steals Chitty. Getting back to their own time requires visiting the North Pole, going into space, and locating the original Chitty. Tiny Jack screeches in a high pitch for attention; he really just wants a family. Tennant is fully versatile as he creates voices for the proper Colonel Pott, the genial Mr. Tooting, clever girls, and a boy who whips out a compass or flashlight or space map whenever the need arises. A.B. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine

JULY 2015 - AudioFile

2014-01-08
The third and (probably) final "official" sequel to Ian Fleming's classic sends the redoubtable roadster careening off the planet as well as through time. Following much travel through various eras in previous episodes, the story opens with the dramatic conversion of Big Ben and its tower to a rocket ship. Cottrell Boyce assembles his expanded cast of passengers—the Pott family from the original novel, the latter-day Tootings, and archvillains Tiny Jack and the Nanny—aboard Tiny Jack's orbiting estate, the Château Bateau, for a climactic faceoff. There, the terrible tyke has gathered all sorts of earthly landmarks from Stonehenge to the pyramids. Now he needs only Apollo 15's lunar rover to complete his collection of the world's most expensive stolen cars. Can even Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the original "smart car," get everything and everyone back to their proper times and places? Well-stocked with thrills, from a high-speed ride with the queen of England ("and Lots of Other Places") to a game of Snakes and Ladders played with real snakes, the daffy series zooms to its finish line in suitable high-octane style. Berger's droll character and spot vignettes add plenty of carbonation. One last exhilarating ride: "Ga GOOO ga!!!!" (Fantasy. 10-12)

Kirkus Reviews