Molly Moon, Micky Minus, & the Mind Machine » (Reprint)

Georgia Byng grew up outside Winchester, in England, near the river Itchen, with three naughty brothers and a sister. Her dad was nature loving and her mum was very encouraging and warm. The nearby country lane with its many cottages was somewhere Georgia first found out about characters, for it was teeming with them, and she used to interview them. Otherwise she would try to sell these neighbours things she had made.

As a child she loved acting and so at 18 went to The Central School of Speech and Drama in London. After college she began to paint and write.
She had always written poems and songs but now she started writing stories.
Her first were in comic strip, a medium that she worked with for five years. The Sock Monsters was her first published book in 1995 - a comic strip story for 5 - 7 year olds.

Georgia lives in a house in London full of old and new art, as her husband is the conceptual artist Marc Quinn. Marc keeps all sorts of strange things in the fridge - once he had to keep a Canadian frog in there as it was hibernating and had to be kept cold. They and their family, Tiger (17), Lucas (6) and Sky (2) love to travel, their favorite destination being India.

Georgia Byng is the author of MOLLY MOON'S INCREDIBLE BOOK OF HYPNOTISM MOLLY MOON STOPS THE WORLD MOLLY MOON'S HYPNOTIC TIME TRAVEL ADVENTURE MOLLY MOON MICKY MINUS AND THE MIND MACHINE

She knows what you're thinking . . . . no really, she knows what you're thinking.

Molly Moon is back from the future--and this time, she can read minds.

Children's Literature

Spunky Molly Moon—hypnotist, time-stopper, and time traveler—is on a mission: to find the lost twin brother whose existence she has just discovered. Accompanied by her best friend, Rocky, and her faithful black pug, Petula, Molly journeys back in time to the hospital from which her twin was kidnapped—only to learn that he has been transported five hundred years into the future. Following him there, Molly finds a world devastated by global warming (Mont Blanc's snow capped peak has become a scorching desert) and about to be conquered by a fiendishly precocious six-year-old tyrant, sinister little Princess Fang, who utters her evil commands in lisping baby talk. Worse, Molly's brother, Micky Minus, is a whiny, cowardly tool of the princess; the princess's mind machine extracts all of Molly's knowledge of hypnotism; and Molly and Micky are imprisoned in a pit of genetically engineered worms. Thank goodness Molly acquires a new magical ability: she can read minds. At 404 pages, the saga of Molly's adventures becomes a bit convoluted and unwieldy (why are so many children's books so long these days?), but Molly is a spirited, formidable, and enormously likeable heroine pitted against one of the most deliciously creepy villains even seen in children's fiction. Reviewer: Claudia Mills, Ph.D.