Millions

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Most of the novel was upbeat and cheerful because the boys were doing a lot of good deeds with all of their money and there weren’t that many major problems throughout the majority of the book. It is an adaptation of his screenplay for the film Millions, although it was released six months before the film (September).

I think that if the book included more action and events occurring then it could be better but the book didn’t take any big unexpected turns and didn’t include anything adventurous or out of the ordinary which is what I didn’t like. A fun story is Millions, with a lot of gentle and very British type humour that in particular my inner child has massively and totally enjoyed reading, but I certainly do wish, or rather my older adult self does wish that Frank Cottrell Boyce would make in particular his three main characters in Millions a bit more developed and nuanced, that Damian were less a goody-goody wanting to give all of the discovered Pounds Sterling to the poor, that his older brother Anthony would be just a trifle less mercenary, less spend-happy, less selfish, and that the father would not be depicted by Boyce as so massively clueless (and in many ways often functioning rather like a plot device, like a textual tool).That's why we've added a new "Diverse Representations" section to our reviews that will be rolling out on an ongoing basis. Other than that, though, Millions was a good read, and I recommend it to people looking for a fairly challenging book.

Cottrell Boyce won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians, recognising the year's best children's book published in the UK. All I can tell from Frank Cottrell Boyce based on his jacket info is that he looks like Alan Cumming's brother and he has 7 kids.Ever since Damian’s mom died he always believes in saints because he thinks it will get him closer to his mom. The end showed how throughout the whole novel the boys’ went through so much for their money and that showed a lot about how greed can control you. This was a really cute story about growing up, and learning about how great (and burdensome) money can be.

Damien's literal take on life, his pure heart, and his obsession with the lives of catholic saints is classic Cottrell Boyce and is both hilarious and poignant. Millions is about two young brothers who come across millions of pounds and their decisions on what they do with it. It's mostly funny though sometimes sad, watching Damian struggle to be a good person while providing a nifty commentary about money, inflation, economy and investment (completely implausible, but still great!

The book is about a young boy named Damian who is obsessed with catholic saints and his older brother Anthony and the problems they get into after Damian finds a bag of pounds, north of two-hundred and thirty thousand pounds to be exact. Damian, who makes his hermitage by the train tracks, encounters a bag stuffed with millions and millions of pounds, about to be destroyed as Britain (in this book's universe) is about to convert its currency to the euro. Steven Lenton hails from Cheshire where he spent many a school holiday working in the family Pom-pom Factory, packing poms and designing new products. It's a bit different from the movie, which made it a surprising ending, and I actually liked the book ending better.

Boyce does a nice job of balancing the serious elements of grief with bits of humor that add up to a compelling tale of coming-of-age and growing up. I did also like the relationship between the boys and their father because it showed how family is one of the most important, if not the most, important aspects in a person’s life. Millions is an interesting story about two young brothers who stumble upon a bag filled with thousands of pounds and must try and spend it before the currency is changed to the euro.And while a 250,000 pounds is a lot of money, it's not unlimited, and there are so many needs out there. The real estate and financial commentary of the protagonist's older brother, Anthony, is one example that comes to mind. Damian's mother has recently died, and he has become obsessed with the lives of the Saints, learning about them, emulating them, even seeing them in visions. As an adult, I think I want to reread it so I can appreciate the simple adventure, because upon this (first ever) read I was wrapped up in Damian and in his r'ship with his father and brother and couldn't quite fully just enjoy the book, as it was so poignant. I disliked this part of the book because the boys were acting juvenile and I think that they were too concerned with their hatred for anyone that threatens their mom’s place that they didn’t realize what a nice person Dorothy was.