This fascinating book is not about time travel at all but is actually a history book looking at 25 key events and time periods throughout human civilization.

When Augustus claims that history is boring, he receives a mysterious present: a time-travelling diary. All he needs is to write down the time and place he wants to visit and he will magically travel there. Augustus journeys with his professor and gains inspiration from some of the world’s finest explorers, inventors, leaders, writers, composers and painters, including Albert Einstein in New York, Mozart in Vienna, Shakespeare in London, and Nancy Bird-Walton in Australia.

Concluding in 1969 when Neil Armstrong walks on the moon, this is a highly illustrated and unusual look at history for readers aged 7 and up.

Angela Crocombe