In My Toaster by Paul Guy Hurrell
In my Toaster is the second book in the series and follows on from What’s in my Fridge. This inspirational story deals with loneliness of Tracey the younger sister of Terry. In this adventure Tracey has become lonely because her father has become stuck in New Zealand due to the pandemic and the travel restrictions.
Her brother Terry is older now and is always playing out with his friends or up in his bedroom on his PlayStation. Her mother’s time is taken up by running the home and she has little or no time for her daughter, like she used to.
On this morning following a missed FaceTime call from her father the evening before. Tracey goes to put her bread into the toaster for her breakfast. Tracey is pulled into the toaster before been shot out of it. The ceiling crumbles away and Tracey lands on the tip of a tree with birds flying around.
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On her magical adventure she meets Sam a Titfur bird who carries a Needed Bag which will produce items they need on their journey. On Tracey’s journey to get back home she will have to be rescued by Sam from the moving pavement, cross through the up river only with an umbrella and cross over the bridge to nowhere.
Avoid the Chatterings who will keep you talking for hours, by hiding under a picnic blanket. She will have to find and get to Peter Smith the wizard who can help her get back home, but not before she has to go down the longest and fastest slide. This slide descends into the creator where the wizard lives in his wood stack where magic happens. The slide has loop de loop, corkscrews and parts missing but this is the only way down to the wizards house.
Tracey must avoid the purple rings which will send her into the cannon that will shoot her back out of the creator. All this in her Unicorn slippers.
My Review
Tracey is lonely. Brother Terry is always out with his friends or playing computer games with them online. But the main reason for Tracey’s unhappiness is that her father was working in New Zealand when Covid struck and he couldn’t get home. They FaceTime and speak on the phone, but she hasn’t seen him for months and she misses the hugs and him tucking her in at bedtime.
Then one morning when her mum asks her if she can make her own toast, she is sucked into the toaster and thrown out again, landing on top of a tree in a strange land. Here she meets Sam the Titfur bird who helps her to find Peter Smith aka Wimpole the Wizard, who lives in a shack at the bottom of a slide and can help her to get home.
She must however avoid being seen by the Chatterings, who will keep her and Sam talking for hours, be rescued from a moving pavement, traverse a river with just an umbrella and cross over the bridge to nowhere. She must definitely not step on the purple rings.
Poor Tracey is still in her Unicorn slippers which are getting very wet, and though she is having fun on the slide, it’s not the same as being home with her dad. Will she get a surprise when she finally gets back? This is another lovely story from Paul Guy Hurrell, this time dealing with loneliness.
Many thanks to @zooloo2008 for inviting me to be part of this blog tour.
About the Author
“I was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England in 1960 to a single parent family. I am the youngest of five siblings – four boys and a girl. I was brought up on a council estate and my family had very little, just like many other families on the estate at the time. I attended two schools as I grew up Bentley Lane Infants/Junior School and then onto Stainbeck High School. For me school was always hard, mainly because of my absenteeism. I wasn’t ill, it was just my mum didn’t send me (empty nest syndrome). Looking back at my school years there is a good chance I spent more times at home, than I did in school.
“I officially left school in 1976 and my first full time job was making special mirrors, the ones you see in pubs. I didn’t last long there before I got bored. I had a number of other jobs after that, but I didn’t stay long in any of them. One job I stayed a full day before not going back, but my record for the shortest stay was 4 hours, I walked away from this job after the hourly rate was cut from 90p an hour, down to 70p an hour.
“The following year I was forced to take a job, back at Stainbeck High School repairing school desks. While here I met my wife, Beverley. We are still together and have two wonderful grown- up children and three grandchildren. I worked for Leeds City Council, in the Housing section for 22 years, before retirement. Since retiring I have the time to carry out one of my first loves, writing stories.”
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