Un viaggio fantastico

Went online and bought two extra copies because mine is wearing out. Spend the last few weeks reading it at night to the 4yo, who is surprisingly enthusiastic about it. I assumed he was too young.

I adored this book as a child and, having lost a shelf of books to water damage, was distraught to find it out of print (in the UK at least). Worth getting the hardback if you can - and treasuring it.

Il primo libro che ho letto che mi ha aperto al mondo della lettura ♥️

Just finished with the kids. What a joy!

Fun to listen to, for children as well as for grown ups! The narration is superb!!

When their Uncle Lancelot shows up at their house one day flying a giant hot air balloon called the Belladonna, the three Dollybutt children - Emma, Ivan, and Conrad - are completely shocked. They are even more surprised when Lancelot proposes that they join him for a year-long journey around the wo Leggi tutto

I recall reading Gerald Durrell stories as a child and was excited to find this book- which I had not read as a child. It tells the story of the Dollybutt children who are taken on an adventure with their Uncle Lancelot around the world in his giant hot air balloon- The Belladonna. The children trav Leggi tutto