De Grey shares Strole’s belief that innovations are coming. But, unlike Strole, he considers current strategies almost pointless. He does not take hundreds of supplements. He does not pay for stem-cell transfusions. “I want to wait and see,” he says. At 56, he is content to sit tight for treatments that have become “progressively more effective… so I don’t have to use clunky, first-generation therapies that may have side-effects.” How to Live Forever is not a book that tells you the secret of immortality, but a fantasy story about a boy called Peter who goes in search of a missing book (yep, you know the title) from a library where he lives. Well, to be precise, this library will come to life after it closes its doors at night and the shelves will begin to rearrange themselves and the rows of books will transform into rows of town houses and bustling with activities. That's where Peter really lives. Perhaps the politics of connecting the generations will be the focus of Freedman's next book. I look forward to reading it. Where the book lowers quality is the style of the writing. I absolutely loved The Floods but I think Thompson is better at writing kids comedy rather than kids fantasy. I was going to lose my mind if I had to read about Peter crying one more time. The 10-year-old main characters acted way older than 10, and there were a lot of exposition conversations especially at the end when Peter's grandfather just gave a massive Q&A and explained all the main plot points that were ham-fistedly "implied" anyway.

I think auth wanted his reader to appreciate life we are having now by reading this fantasy story. What we should do is to appreciate life and live happily in this time but not to concern about future. How To Live Forever is about a library that contains every book ever written but 200 years ago one of the books went missing. The library come alive in the night, windows and doors appear on the books, lights turn on and you can hear the voices of people. A boy who resides in a cookbook with his family, discovers the record card of that missing book and goes on adventures every night in search of this mysterious book that was titled How To Live Forever. One night, after searching from room to room and in lost cities, he stumbles upon 4 old men. One of the men realized what the boy was there for and he hands him the book and leads him to the Ancient Child who was the only person to have every read the book. The Ancient Child was lonely and regretted reading the book because he was frozen in time, while all of his friends moved on. After visiting the Ancient Child, the young boy decides that it would be best not to read the book.

In any case, it is likely that one single longevity strategy alone won’t help us much. Life extensionists enjoy a metaphor: humans are complicated machines, they say, like cars, but mushy. And what happens to a machine if you don’t look after it? It rusts. It splutters and spurts, until it reaches its inevitable conclusion. De Grey considers ageing a “multifaceted problem”. Humans incur many different types of damage. We don’t just rust. We scratch. We dent. Rubbish accumulates in our footwells and grime develops in our engines. We require multiple strategies of repair – constant fine-tuning. What’s the point in removing those senescent cells if that molecular junk continues to build up? The boy Peter who lives in the library has been looking for a book called "How to liv forever" to ensure that his cat and him would not grow up. His adventure of "book hunting" was quite fun and was expressed fabulous by the images in the book. Even though Peter find the book at the end but he decided to hide the book and not using the "magic power" of this book.

The resource is presented as PowerPoint slides, with tasks built throughout each lesson, most lessons actually took me more than one day to complete so this could easily keep you going for 3 weeks+. I have used all of these slides in my own Y3 class with great results. (I will add pictures when I next get chance). The illustrations were gorgeous and had lots of little Easter eggs for adult readers such as the names of the books in the library. The moral of the book was very philosophical and reall pushes the reader to think deeply about the nature of life. What is more important to live a full life or a long life? Not only is it an amazing storyline with such bold details in the illustrations but it is amazing how the writer speaks to children (the targeted audience) about death and how it's inevitable and beautiful.

This is the first PowerPoint lesson from the two-week+ ready-to-go lesson slide collection for How to Live Forever by Colin Thompson in which children explore the themes and ideas set out in the book, as well as writing a prequel, character and setting descriptions, lost book posters and also letters of warning/advice.