A snow day from school? What a great time to curl up with a blanket and a good book like The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd. The story is told by Ted, a 12-year-old who is very bright and probably autistic, or as he describes it, "having a...brain that runs on a different operating system." Ted and his sister Kate take their cousin Salim to ride the London Eye, an enormous Ferris wheel. They watch Salim get into one of the pods, but he doesn't get off. He's vanished! Ted has a special way of looking at things, and it takes his special brain and hard work to figure out what happened. Not only is this a good mystery (looking back, I noticed some of the clues), but the realistic insight into how Ted thinks - very literally and logically - was equally fascinating.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Vanished into thin air
A snow day from school? What a great time to curl up with a blanket and a good book like The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd. The story is told by Ted, a 12-year-old who is very bright and probably autistic, or as he describes it, "having a...brain that runs on a different operating system." Ted and his sister Kate take their cousin Salim to ride the London Eye, an enormous Ferris wheel. They watch Salim get into one of the pods, but he doesn't get off. He's vanished! Ted has a special way of looking at things, and it takes his special brain and hard work to figure out what happened. Not only is this a good mystery (looking back, I noticed some of the clues), but the realistic insight into how Ted thinks - very literally and logically - was equally fascinating.
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