

Framed
Author: Frank Cottrell Boyce
Narrator: Jason Hughes
Unabridged: 6 hr 59 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 08/22/2006
Categories: Children's Fiction, Action & Adventure Stories, Children's Humor
Author: Frank Cottrell Boyce
Narrator: Jason Hughes
Unabridged: 6 hr 59 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 08/22/2006
Categories: Children's Fiction, Action & Adventure Stories, Children's Humor
Frank Cottrell Boyce is the author of Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth, The Astounding Broccoli Boy, Cosmic, Framed, and Millions, the last of which was a New York Times bestseller and was made into a movie by Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle. His books have won or been nominated for numerous awards, including the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. Frank is also a screenwriter, having penned the scripts for a number of feature films as well as the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics. He lives in Liverpool with his family.
This juvenile novel falls in the quirkyfamilymakesgood subgenre. Nineyearold Dylan is a member of a Welsh family living in a small Welsh town trying to keep their business and family together. The storage of museum paintings nearby inspire the townspeople to beautify the town and Dylan and his siblings to steal a painting to earn money, either through insurance fraud or blackmail. Its humorous and fun and a little silly, but has heart as these quirky novels so often do.
7.3/10 What a pleasant read! Αρχικά είχα την εντύπωση πως θα είναι βαρετό, ευτυχώς έπεσα έξω, ποοοοολύ έξω. Κύριος πρωταγωνιστής του βιβλίου είναι ο Ντίλαν, είναι 9 ετών και είναι το μοναδικό αγόρι, στην ηλικία αυτή, που ζεί στο Μάνοντ, μια μικρή πόλη του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου. Για να μη στην περιγράφω πά......more
Aww, another awesome book recommend by my friend who produces the Bob Edwards show. I'm all alone in the dark without her. This story is so great. It's about the small English town of Manod where a little service station owned and operated by Dylan and his family is struggling to survive. Then the......more
The adorable narrator of this book is 9 year old Dylan from Wales. He's the ONLY boy in the small town of Manod so he has no one to play soccer with...a real bummer in a young English boy's life. It starts out slow, but don't give up, you will be richly rewarded. I read a LOT of this book out loud t......more
How did I never review this before?? Not a full reread, but my 13 year old was reading a section aloud to us tonight and we were all giggling with pure delight. This is one of my favourite comic novels and one of my favourite books written within my lifetime. It’s set in a depressed small town in Wa......more
eponymous-ey sentence: p58: She beckoned me closer to the Connect Four frame with her finger and, when I was right up to it, she poked me in the eye. plain wrong: p44: In case you don't know, the Technodrome is the headquarters of the Turtles' arch enemy, Arko Saki, known as the Shredder. spelling: p171:......more