Alistair's Time Machine

Alistair is everyone's idea of a brainy schoolboy boffin complete with spectacles, cap and blazer and everyone expects him to win the 'Twicadilly Science Competition' with his time machine. However, things do not go exactly to plan and a test trip to 'the day before yesterday' leads instead to encounters with Knights of the Round Table, French courtiers, pirates, Roman lions and cavemen. The incongruity of this diminutive character in such company so humorously depicted in Roger Bollen's illustrations and the contrastingly straight-faced style of the text together make for a diverting piece of nonsense which could have a wide age appeal.