Doctor Who: Thirteen Doctors 13 Stories is a collection for 11 year olds with one adventure for every Doctor, all the way from the First to the Thirteenth.<\/p>\n
Each story is by a different writer and stars a different Doctor. The Thirteenth Doctor’s story is by Naomi Alderman. So if your reader only knows the newest Doctors, this is a brilliant way to meet all the others.<\/p>\n
The first story sets the tone. It’s London in 1968. Jamie, the Doctor’s companion from the Scottish Highlands, is standing outside a bookshop in his kilt when he hears a shout down an alley. He rescues an old bookseller from a thug, and gets a very old book as a thank-you.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile the TARDIS is in bits all over the control room floor. The Doctor says they’re stuck in London for good. So Jamie cheers him up with a present… and the Doctor reads the title and throws it across the room with a shriek.<\/p>\n
Suddenly the TARDIS takes off on its own. It lands at the very edge of space, beside a city of black glass that hurts your eyes to look at. Giant apes made of glass carry the TARDIS off. And inside the tallest pyramid, something with tentacles is waiting.<\/p>\n
It reads just like an episode! The Doctor is rumpled and brilliant and a bit rude, eating an ice cream while everything falls apart. He plays a recorder so shrill it sends all the birds flapping into the air, just so no one sees him slip into the police box. Jamie grumbles, puts out a fire the wrong way and follows him anyway.<\/p>\n
It’s properly creepy in places. There’s a book that pulses like a heartbeat, a stink of rotting fish, and sea creatures in rags rising out of a pool of mercury. Nothing gory, but some eerie monsters. If your reader enjoys a scary bit on the telly from behind a cushion, they’ll love it.<\/p>\n
Every story is its own adventure, so it’s easy to read one at bedtime and save the next.<\/p>\n
If it’s the newest Doctor they’re keenest on, The Secret in Vault 13 is a whole novel with the Thirteenth Doctor, Ryan, Yaz and Graham, and it starts with them being chased across a planet by a robot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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