The Time-Travelling Cat and the Roman Eagle

The Time-Travelling Cat and the Roman Eagle

by JuliaJarman (Author)

Synopsis

As with the two previous Time-travelling cat novels, there are two strands to this. In the contemporary part of the novel, Topher is settling into a new life in Chichester, a city with ancient Roman links. He becomes fascinated by a tile from Ancient Rome he sees in a museum which has a cat's footprint on it. [factually accurate, it's in Reading Museum]. But he's being bullied at school by a boy who used to live in the house that Topher's parents have bought. In the timeslip element of the story, Topher meets up with Marcus, the son of Cassius the tilemaker and he discovers that it is, in fact, the time-travelling cat's pawprint on the tile. Marcus's elder brother is a bully and it is he who steals the symbol of power of the Roman Army - the eagle. Marcus and Topher have to get it back...before Topher can return to his own time.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Edition: New
Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
Published: 03 Dec 2001

ISBN 10: 0007105983
ISBN 13: 9780007105984
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years

Author Bio
Julia Jarman was a teacher before becoming a full-time writer of children's books. Her first book was a story she used to tell her children at bedtime, When Poppy Ran Away. Julia's Jessame stories, also for younger readers, have enjoyed years of success. Her older fictiion centres on historical time-slip fiction which links in with National Curriculum History topics. She lives just north of Bedford with her husband, Peter, and two cats.