My 8 year old was given this book for his birthday and we have been reading it together. However, it is such hard work that we are reluctant to finish it. The storylines don't seem to follow any sort of proper start/finish/end and are such 'pie in the sky' that we don't really have any inclination to carry on with reading it. We both prefer the Secret Seven, it is a little old fashioned but much more engaging and a proper story.