Having worked with director Danny Boyle on Millions, Danny asked Frank to be part of the team creating the Opening Ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics. See: "Have you noticed, by the way, that Eve is always asking questions and then answering them herself before you get a chance? You do laugh at the children (who won’t believe the potatoes they’ve dug up are real because they don’t have labels on them). a funny and life-affirming tale about co-operation and resourcefulness, with a Blytonesque hidden-loot subplot thrown in.

When the children discover food and make comparisons to their local food bank we know that this isn’t the world of middle class Enid Blyton youngsters but a world of challenge and change that often is dominated by technology and materialism leaving many without. Told in the form of letters from Noah to his family, which mysteriously are answered, even though there is no post collection, Noah’s Gold is a very funny story, brilliantly told by one of our best storytellers.With a nod to classics like Lord Of The Flies and Treasure Island this is a rip-roaring tale of buried treasure.

Yesterday a parent came over to tell me how impressed she was by the book fair and that you did a fabulous job of selling the books to the children first. The minibus is dead after falling off a cliff, with their packed lunches, and their teacher has gone missing after trying to get help. Their summary was 'a teacher gets lost on the way to a school trip, they get stuck on a deserted island, the teacher goes missing and the children are stranded' I said it sounds like my nightmares before school trips! Steve Lenton’s charming black-and-white illustrations complement the chapters beautifully, giving the book a real scribbled-treasure-map feel. However, instead of going to the Wonder Warehouse they find themselves marooned on an "island in the middle of the sea".This one is definitely an adventure story at it’s heart, and I really enjoyed blasting through it and seeing where it was going to go. A gorgeous, magical tale with Cottrell-Boyce's brilliant ability to get inside the heads of children and capture them on a page and his deep empathy and humanity. Packed with mystery, adventure and laughs , Noah's Gold is the exciting novel from the bestselling, multi-award-winning author of Millions and Cosmic , Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Noah accidentally stows away on a geography field trip and then breaks the internet, or so he believes.