The Little Stolen Sweep Author:Katherine Moore Jacket flap: — The old man in the library said: — "The songs your ancestors sang may be echoing round you still." — "I haven't got any ancestors," said Daniel. — "Of course you have," said the old gentleman. "Everyone has..." — This exciting story starts in the present day when ten-year-old Daniel Honeywood is sent from London to stay with his great-... more »aunt and uncle in the village where his father came from. As he lies in bed at night listening to the church bell, the old man's words begin to have an effect - with the magic result that he travels back in time and does meet an ancestor, a boy just like himself called Jimmy Honeywood. But Jimmy is leading a terrible life as a chimney sweep's apprentice climbing boy and is desperate to escape, so Daniel agrees to change places with him, knowing he can easily escape back to the twentieth century. However things don't turn out as easily as all that, and Daniel, thrown back on his own resources, has a series of dramatic adventures which involve him and his double with new friends and blackguards, the horrors of climbing chimneys, a robbery, a kidnap and a long dangerous journey to London.
THE LITTLE STOLEN SWEEP is one of those rare books which involve the reader in a deep and memorable way. It vividly brings the nineteenth century to life through the eyes of a modern boy, and everyone who reads it will carry images from it with them for the rest of their lives.« less