The Broken Roof

Band: Turquoise
Scheme: Oxford Reading Tree
Type: Fiction
Author: Roderick Hunt
ISBN: 9780198483069
The Broken Roof book cover

What's the book about?

At school, the children discover an old washing machine called a mangle and learn how it works. The next day they bring their special little toy house to class, but an accident breaks its roof and everyone feels upset. Then a magic key whisks them back in time to meet new friends in an old-fashioned house with a broken roof, where they watch how it is carefully fixed.

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Reviews

Ethan, Age 5

Rating:

This book is about
The children were at school and found an old mangle. The teacher showed them how it worked. The next day, Biff and Chip took their old, little house to school. Wilf climbed on Mrs. May's desk and dropped some books onto the roof of the house and it got smashed. The magic key began to glow and took the children on an adventure to a house with a broken roof that was being repaired. There were three children outside the house playing. They wore different clothes to Biff, Chip and Kipper.

The main characters are
Biff, Chip, Kipper, Edward, Victoria and Will.

My favourite part of the book is
When Wilf smashed the roof of the little house.

I would also like to say
The adventure was in the Victorian times.