Timo and the Nile Ibis: A Adventure — Book 9

A cat. A bird. A snake. And one very bad idea involving wings.Timo was having an excellent afternoon by the Nile. An artist was painting a bird. The painting was good, but it was missing something.It was missing a cat.One walk across the wet paint later, Timo's magic collar flashes and drops him two and a half thousand years into the past, face-first into a papyrus marsh. A sacred ibis is already sprinting for its life. There is a snake. There is a nest full of eggs. And there is a cat who has never once admitted he was running away from anything.Timo has three plans.By the time it is over, a very ordinary snake is racing down an ancient street with wings strapped to its sides, an entire town is screaming, and a Greek traveller is writing all of it down, badly.That traveller was Herodotus. What he wrote survived for two and a half thousand years. He got the bird right. He got the cat completely wrong.Timo has been waiting a long time to correct the record. Why children love these books: full-page comic art, short read-aloud lines, and a hero whose plans collapse in real time. Every page is a joke a four-year-old can follow and a seven-year-old can read alone.Why parents keep buying them: every Timo book hides a real piece of history inside the comedy. This one ends with a "Did that really happen?" page about Herodotus, the sacred ibis, the god Thoth, and the eight million ibises the ancient Egyptians mummified, plus the difference between the sacred ibis, the glossy ibis, and the white abu qerdan everybody in Egypt still mistakes for one.Also inside: three bonus colouring pages drawn from scenes in the story. Timo is a sleek black Egyptian cat with a gold earring, an enormous opinion of himself, and a scarab collar that drops him into history at the worst possible moment. He notices what everybody else misses. He solves problems sideways. He has never lost his dignity, and he has never once been wrong - ask him.The Timo series: - Book 1 - The Key to Everything- Book 2 - The Royal Carpet- Book 3 - The Temple of Teeth- Book 4 - The Nile Hippo- Book 5 - The Angry Kitty- Book 6 - The Sinking Temple- Book 7 - The Night Museum- Book 8 - Babi the Baboon- Book 9 - The Nile Ibis- Book 10 - Timo and Little Tut (coming soon)Perfect for ages 4-10, read-aloud bedtimes, reluctant readers, ancient-Egypt fans, and anyone who has ever been outsmarted by a cat.