Blitz Bombs & Mythical Monsters🪖⛵
Fun Kids Book Quest

Blitz Bombs & Mythical Monsters🪖⛵

B1IntermediateJune 3, 202622 min
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In this episode of BookQuest, we’re looking at what happens when ordinary kids are thrown into the absolute deep end of history and myth. Whether you’re dodging air raids or outsmarting skeleton armies, survival takes some serious teamwork! On the Shelf This Week: Tony Bradman joins the show to introduce Tales of Cobb Street Commandos. Walk into the chaos of World War Two alongside Jimmy and his friends, who refuse to just hide from the air raids—instead, they form their very own commando unit to protect their neighborhood. Clare Pollard also fe...

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Hello and welcome to the Fun Kids BookQuest podcast. My name is Bex, I love books and there are two brilliant ones on the way for you today. Claire Pollard will be telling us about the other noughts,

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But first, we have got tales of the Cobb Street commandos. Now this is a brand new book from a new pal, Tony Bradman. He's telling us about Jimmy and his friends back in World War II. Suddenly Jimmy heard a low droning noise that froze the blood in his veins.

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It was the air raid warning, the sirens on roofs all over London being cranked up to let everyone know German bombers were heading their way. The noise soon grew into a high-pitched wine that rose and fell, drilling deep into his brain. He looked up and saw a cluster of menacing black dots emerging from the clouds in the

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