A beautiful retelling for younger children, that smoothly captures the essence of the original Verne stories and their adventurous spirit with humour, leaving out all outdated parts of the text.

The exquisite mixed-media illustration, faithful to the atmosphere of Jules Verne’s imagination, will entice children to the adventurous world of the story.

The ideal first encounter with the great works of Jules Verne from an early age.A secret message put Axel and his uncle, Otto Lidenbrock, professor of mineralogy, into great adventures, leading them to descend all the way to the centre of the earth! “I carefully took the book in my hands, when suddenly through its pages slipped a small piece of paper folded in four. It was a secret message, the beginning of a great adventure for me and my uncle Otto Lidenbrock- the famous professor of mineralogy.”