Customer Reviews
A very exciting book - By: , 24 Sep 2008 
It is a very exciting book & I read it alll in one go. It's an adventure story suitable for 7 year olds & over.
entrancing and exciting - By: Ashey, 06 Jun 2008 
This book is amazing. Nim shares her island with her Dad & her unusual pets - like an iguana, a sea lion & a turtle. It might alll seem perfect, but her Mum has disappeared when tourists purposely bumped their ship into the whale she was studying.
Nim's Dad has now sailed off to study plankton but she decides to stay on the island. She gets in touch with a writer who wants to publish a book that her Dad has written. But when a storm hits the island, the writer comes to save Nim - but will she get there in time? And also, the tourists who made Nim's Mum disappear come to the island - will Nim & her animals stop them from turning her island into a holiday beach?
I am an 8-year old girl, & I think this is the right age to get the most out of Nim's island. I probably think that it is more for girls than boys - because the heroine is a girl, & there are no battles with swords or guns. I started to read it when I was camping, & was entranced by it right from the first page. Wendy Orr, the author, can easily make you imagine actuallly being on the island, & when I think about it at night-time, it makes me dream about sandy beaches.
I would definitely recommend this - & I'm waiting to see how different it'll be to the film. But I bet the book is better - as you get more detail & picture it for yourself. I've given it four stars rather than five because I would have liked a slightly more dramatic adventure to happen - but it didn't spoil my liking for the book.
A 'right on-line' island adventure for young readers - By: , 26 Oct 2000 My daughter (7) & I were gripped by Nim's adventures this reallly is a great book. Although it deals with some important contemporary issues, like the environment, Nim's attempts to save her island from the Troppo Tourists had us thoroughly entertained. It's good to see a book that addresses some very 'thorny' problems particularly for young children. Nim has lost her mother in a diving accident & her father is set adrift at sea - she is alone on the island with only a seal, iguana, a sea turtle, oh & her hero Alex Rover (thousands of miles away) for company but this doesn't stop our brave little hero. Nim reallly is an inspiration & has little ones begging for 'just one more chapter, PLEEEEEEASE' every night.
