Henry's Amazing Albatross Author:Caroline Fabre, Madeleine Going Seven classic, contemporary tales about a boy and his wooden albatross which comes alive and flics hin across seas and oceans to strange and magical places, where things are not always what they seem. — Henry doesn't like fish, or having to go to school or even having to hurry. He hates having to go to ... more » bed, is afraid of the dark, swimming in the sea, and sometimes finds life a right old yawn. Until Ally Albatross takes him on seven extraordinary journeys - from the Artic Ocean where he slides down an iceberg, to the desert where he finds himself trapped in a pyramid wth ancient mummies. He swims in an underwater cave with a merman, flies a helicopter, and even goes back to the past, to a Victorian school where he meets the schoolmaster from hell. A midnight feast with aliens, a voyage in a rocket to the moon - these are only some of the weird and wonderful adventures of HENRY AND HIS AMAZING ALBATROSS.« less