"Hilarious edge-of-your-seat time-travel adventure full of surprises"
If your parents went time-traveling (without telling you) and then sent a cryptic message from 5000 BCE asking for your help, you’d go right? Of course you would – and that’s exactly what Eliza and her little brother Johnnie do too (Johnnie may only be little but he’s a genius and well able to build a time-travelling machine of his own).
Things don’t go quite to plan however, and not only do they end up accidentally taking the school’s mega-bully Sadie Snickpick with them, but they also run into the evil billionaire who caused them and their parents such trouble in the first book in the series. Which partly explains how they end the adventure balancing on their time travel machine (a sofa) over a man-made volcano that’s about to explode. The bits in the middle are extremely funny, full of excitement and some very real peril.
There are shocks instore too such as a) when they find their parents and b) when they discover that Sadie Snickpick isn’t as irredeemably bad as she seems while the ending will leave readers desperate for book three.
Thoroughly enjoyable and highly entertaining.
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How To Survive Time Travel has great characters and lots of problem solving, so you won’t be able to put it down. The time travel sofa is especially funny and powering time travel with a pyramid full of parrot poo sounds perfectly logical.
This is a very good book; it is very funny, and it has a great plot line. It is a fast paced and exiting adventure that leaves you wanting the next one immediately after you finish it because it ends on a cliff hanger. It is a great follow-on from the first book in the series How to Survive Without Grown-ups and has funny illustrations that you could copy yourself if you wanted to draw it.
I especially liked the garden sky diving, I thought that was very funny and I would love to try it. The huge amount of parrot poo in the pyramid and the jungle in Egypt was very clever, as well as the time travel car. I like the way the book mixes real science with fantastical ideas.... Read Full Review
This book was hilarious, and as soon as I got it I could not put it down. This is the second book in the series, and I'm waiting for the next book.
Johnnie and Eliza's parents go missing, and so start an adventure, taking them back in time. They meet a rainbow sphinx, snakes and a strange boy... Can Eliza and Johnnie end another plot to destroy the world?
This book was hilarious, and as soon as I got it I could not put it down. This is the second book in the series, and I'm waiting for the next book: How To Survive The Future. There are lots of silly cartoons in the book, and I loved the pictures.... Read Full Review
I give this book 5 stars and think that all children who like funny adventure books will enjoy this book.
This is an hilarious adventure book about two kids, Eliza and Johnnie, trying to save their parents who accidentally went back in time to Egypt in 5000 BCE! This is the second book in the How to Survive series. Even though I hadn’t read the first book, I could still understand what was happening and follow the story and now I really want to read the first book too.
As well as the story being very exciting, there are some really funny and cool notes and cartoons throughout the book that bring different parts of the story to life.... Read Full Review
