Notes

133 p. : ill., maps. "The eight year old who has lived for over four hundred years!--Back cover. Summary: No one knows the full story of Charlie Small. His battered journal was found washed up on a remote, windswept shore. Surely no eight-year-old could have had so many wild adventures, witnessed so many extraordinary things, lived such an incredible life - and still only be eight. And yet-- everything in the journal of Charlie Small is true. He really has wrestled a deadly river croc, ridden a steam-powered rhino, been cabin boy for a band of desperate lady-pirates and tribal chief in a city of gorillas.