Archer's Goon: Chapters 10 & 11
A LEGO tribute to a fun and original YA novel
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Welcome to our LEGO re-enactment of Diana Wynne Jones’s awesome and highly original novel Archer’s Goon. My eight-year-old son and I did this a couple of years ago, and luckily, we took some photos! I’ve included some excerpts from the text, so you can see what our LEGO scenes are meant to be portraying.
If you haven’t read the story, none of this will make much sense. But, if you haven’t read the story, you shouldn’t be here anyway - you should be heading to your local bookstore/library to get a copy of Archer’s Goon!
If you want to start at the beginning, here’s where you can find all the chapters.
Or, read on! This one is all about Hathaway!!
Chapter 10
On Friday morning Hathaway’s men woke them all at dawn again, drilling a large ditch all the way along the front of the house.
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When Howard and Awful left to go to school, they found they had to do a long jump in order to leave the house. Hathaway’s ditch began at the bottom of the front doorstep.
…Howard actually turned towards the door marked “Entrance.” To most people, Howard included, the museum yard was just a way through to the lanes below the cathedral.
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The attendant said, “This way then,” and took them around the corner, through the dark canvas corridors of the Saxon exhibition.
Chapter 11
There was a garden beyond the wall, a very well-kept garden made mostly of trees or shrubs trained and clipped around neat paths.
We included a hi-tech screen (maybe it’s a subway map) next to the door that leads from Howard’s world to Hathaway’s, because we figured Hathaway would need some kind of device to connect him to the modern world. After all, there’s a screen in Venturus’s temple that points to a view of Hathaway’s world, so maybe this is it?
When the Goon said Hathaway lived in the past, he had meant exactly that.
Howard had got used to this idea by the time the lady threw open a pale oak door and said, “Hathaway, here are strange guests again!” So the sight of Dad’s typewriter wrapped in chains and lying on the table in that room was almost shocking.
Hathaway turned eagerly to Howard and Awful. “Is it possible you come to me from your father?” he said.
To be continued…