The Green Bronze Mirror

I received a copy of The Green Bronze Mirror by Lynne Ellison from http://www.cnposnerbooks.co.uk
for read and review.

Book Description: From back cover of book...

"Karen is playing on the beach when she finds an ancient mirror buried in the sand. She looks into it, and is transported back in time to the Roman Empire. Finding herself a slave (spelled salve on back cover), she faces many hair-raising adventures in her struggle to return to her own time. This new addition has BRAND-NEW illustrations by Philip Smiley."

As I am a big fan of time travel I was excited to read this book and even though I knew that it was written by a child I thought it was going to be an interesting story. Well the story itself of Karen finding the green bronzed mirror and all of a sudden falling into a different time period was kind of cool. That she went back to Roman times was also exciting, but I was disappointed as the story went on. The back cover says that "her struggle to return to her own time" there was very little of that in the story and her being sold as a slave was not at all depicted like it should have been. Slaves back in Roman times were not treated very well at all. Karen is bought by a family and inserted into their household to take care of the children. Her explanation of how she came to be in this era is kind of brushed over. I would think that the people that she meets and she tells the story as to how she came to be in this era, I think would have asked a lot more questions than they did. In a society were someone that was not Roman would not have been accepted as easily as Karen was, just her name alone would ring some bells. All that aside, as I was reading it I kept in the back of my mind that this was written by a child so I kept plugging along. There were a few of illustrations scattered throughout the book and they were ok. 

Now comes the part that I didn't like...the grammatical errors and the typo's. The book was full of them. Sometimes I had to insert my own words into the story so I could understand what I was reading. Again written by a child. But I think if the publisher and author are trying to sell this new addition they need to have the book edited page by page because I really think if they did this, The Green Bronze Mirror would be a very good story.. 

Would I recommend this book for a preteen or younger to read? Yes but only if edited properly. I thank CS Posner for giving me the opportunity to read this book and give my honest opinion.