Zoom Away and Zoom Upstream (1000 Books to Read)

Mustich has the whole Zoom Trilogy on the list, but my library only bought the first book (at my request) back in 2019. I didn't want to invest the money, but I certainly wanted to FINISH all the children's books on the 1000 Books to Read Before You Die List. The other day, I got this bright idea: why not see if it is read on YouTube, and it was!

So, I have closure! It is a sweet trilogy. 

Here is why James Mustich thinks it should be one of the 1000 Books You Read Before You Die:

Tucked away deep in the folds of a reader’s earliest memories, the imaginative magic of beloved picture books can shape and color all that he or she will come to learn—especially when the books in question are as wonderful as the three Zoom tales of Tim Wynne-Jones and Eric Beddows, which relate the adventures of a cat in search of his mysterious, seafaring Uncle Roy. Zoom’s search leads him to his uncle’s friend Maria, a woman whose house holds not only the ocean (as we discover in Zoom at Sea), but also—up near the attic—the North Pole (Zoom Away), and—behind the books in the library—Egypt and the Nile (Zoom Upstream). With a gentle mix of wisdom and whimsy, the author and the illustrator take us by the hand and lead us, easily and gracefully, into the heady atmosphere of imagination’s chamber. If you ever find better picture books to share— and share again, and again—with your children, you’re a lucky family indeed.