The Humming Machine
Illustrated by Lesley Harker. Random House Young Corgi July 2006. ISBN 0-552-55402-2
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The story is told with a great deal of charm and will both thrill and entrance the Young Corgi readership, as well as introducing them gently to a distinguished genre of story telling.
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If Mum and Dad had looked out of their window, they’d have seen what appeared to be a brilliant blue star streaking across the sky, trailing a white spinning twist of air like a comet. They’d have heard a voice singing out, "I’m flying Pix! I’m really flying!”
When his great Grandpa Toby gets a wonderful humming machine, it’s the start of a new adventure for Tam. The King of Faery has seen Great-Grandpa and the machine and wants them both, so he magics them off to Faery. Now it’s up to Tam, once more, to travel to that magical land and with the help of his old friends, to try and bring Great Grandpa home. But, on the way, he must face the terrifying Flame-reader.
The Humming Machine and The Starburster are published together by Chivers Audiobooks as an unabridged audio book.
Listen to an excerpt:
This is the second story in The Starburster series: see also The Starburster and The Windspinner.
And what is the humming machine? It’s actually a harmonica, and sometimes it makes an awful row and sometimes it sounds wonderful.
Writing tip
You could write a story about a piano, or a violin, a guitar or a drum – what could happen to it if a fairy wanted it?
