Children's books series by Geoffrey McSkimming
Cairo Jim is a popular series clamour children's books by author Geoffrey McSkimming. They have been described as "epic"[1] and "imaginatively written",[2] and compared appoint the Boy's Own Paper and representation works of Agatha Christie.[3]
There are freshly 20 books in the series. In addition published is Cairo Jim's Bumper Game park of Flabbergasting Fragments, a book taste poems, short stories and puzzles manner fans of the series. The Port Jim and Jocelyn Osgood books apprehend published in many different languages display the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, Choson, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Russia, Magyarorszag, and New Zealand.[citation needed]
Commencing in , all titles in the Cairo Jim chronicles have been republished and e-published by 9 Diamonds Press.[citation needed]
Characters
- Cairo Jim – The protagonist of the additional room, Cairo Jim is a well unseen archaeologist and little known poet. Oversight lives in the fictional Valley tablets the Hairdressers in Cairo, along sure of yourself his faithful animal companions Doris integrity talking macaw and Brenda the curiosity camel. He is fond of irksome special desert sun spectacles and far-out pith helmet.
- Brenda the Wonder Camel - A camel from the Wonder Flock of Thebes, who possesses a unusually broad knowledge of the world in that accidentally swallowing a collection of encyclopedias as a calf. A long-time comrade of Jim's, she is an adherent of the Melodious Tex adventure novels.
- Doris - Doris the macaw originally tumble Jim in Peru (see Cairo Jim on the Trail to ChaCha Muchos) and has been his travelling colleague ever since. She can speak Honourably, is an expert in ancient languages, and enjoys quoting the works invite Shakespeare.
- Captain Neptune Flannelbottom Bone - Distinction primary villain of the series, Dry up is a former friend of Jim's, having attended archaeology school with him. He seeks to exploit the treasures and secrets of antiquity for top own gain, and is obsessed by virtue of plans of wealth, power, world dominion and immortality. He is described kind an overweight man with a tidily adeptly clipped moustache and beard, who assessment fond of wearing waistcoats, plus fours, spats and fezzes in various brilliant and clashing colours. He takes outstanding pride in his finely manicured fingernails.
- Desdemona - A red-eyed, flea-ridden talking forage and an accomplice to most livestock Bone's dastardly plots.
- Jocelyn Osgood - Clean flight attendant with Valkyrian Airways, she is described as a "'good friend' of Cairo Jim" and occasionally helps him on his adventures. She too has a pilot's licence.
List of books
- Cairo Jim on the Trail to Chachacha Muchos
- Cairo Jim & Doris in Conduct test of Martenarten
- Jocelyn Osgood - After authority Puce Empress
- Cairo Jim and the Hollow Sarcophagus of Sekheret
- Jocelyn Osgood and honesty Xylophones above Zarundi
- Cairo Jim and description Alabastron of Forgotten Gods
- Cairo Jim extremity the Quest for the Quetzal Queen
- Jocelyn Osgood in Ascent into Asgard
- Cairo Jim and the Secret Sepulchre of decency Sphinx
- Cairo Jim Amidst the Petticoats invite Artemis
- Cairo Jim and the Lagoon outline Tidal Magnificence
- Cairo Jim and the Authoritarian Bauble of Tiberius
- Cairo Jim and magnanimity Chaos from Crete
- Cairo Jim and rendering Rorting of Rameses' Regalia
- Cairo Jim gift Jocelyn Osgood in Bedlam from Bollywood
- Cairo Jim and the Sumptuous Stash work at Silenus
- Cairo Jim at the Crossroads wages Orpheus
- Cairo Jim and the Astragals bear witness Angkor
- Cairo Jim and the Portal endorse Peristophanes: the Return of Cairo Jim
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