"A time travel adventure story up there with the best… This is one of the best evocations of Viking times I’ve read, all the characters live and breathe on the page, and readers really will feel they’ve been back in time too" - LoveReading4Kids

"Packed with facts about life in the ninth century …this story is exciting and informative" - BookTrust

"An exciting adventure …giving children a real feel for what it must have been like to live in 859 AD. Josh Lacey has avoided making fun of the history and instead made it real and exciting" - Books for Keeps

"A brilliant resource for an ancient civilisations topic, and closes with an extended historical note" - CLPE