Well. Here we are again with another books-read-in-the-last-few-weeks post.
I'll warn you now: you might find something a little... odd with this post. I hope it doesn't leave you feeling uncomfortable and wrong...
Who left this whip here? And what's that laying on the rug?!
::pokes prone horse::
It's not dead, is it?
::
'Heads down, eyes glare, Mindbenders! Glass Move!' she commanded. She kept her eyes on the ants.
Mindbending starts off as just a game for Vinny and Toby... until the ants arrive, that is. At first the formicarium - a gift from bossy Aunt Craven - seems just a typically useless present. What kind of fun could you have with a portable ants' nest? But as time passes, the children find themselves uncontrollably drawn to stare and stare into the glass case and to concentrate on its manic occupants - it is like plugging your mind into a huge power socket. Suddenly Vinny and Toby are doing wonderful, magical things that should have been impossible: mindbending is incredible!
But then the ants decide to grow...
Along with Trillions and Grinny, this book rounds out my Nicholas Fisk collection. I really must read more of his books.
Just a minute... Those books aren't on chairs! What gives? Where are they?
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