Winsley Walker Book Review

Winsley Walker and Other Flying Objects

By Nancy Cadle Craddock

Twelve-year-old Winsley Walker lives next door to her grandparents. Although this may sound like fun to most kids, to Winsley it means regularly having to choose between being a partner-in-crime with her wacky grandfather and mischievous younger brother Billy, or doing what she knows is right. But on the day Gramps decides to build the world’s smallest passenger plane, Winsley has no choice. Unless she can prevent the unthinkable, lives are at stake. Maybe even her own.

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***MY HONEST REVIEW OF WINSLEY WALKER***

Winsley Walker is just an ordinary middle school student. She tries to mind her own business and stay out of trouble, but she has two obstacles; her Gramps, and her eight-year-old brother Billy. Billy is known as the terror of the county, but Gramps is even worse. Being a do-it-yourselfer, his wild and wacky shenanigans always causes trouble for the neighborhood. Poor Winsley feels like it is her responsibility to keep both of them out of trouble. However, she always seems to get drawn into whatever trouble they have brewing. Now Gramps’ latest venture is to build an airplane, to fly himself around in. After seeing how unsafe his rickety creation is, and being unable to deter him, Winsley figures she had better help rather than hinder him. Before it’s over though, she’ll end up doing more than that.

This was a very entertaining story. I know if I liked it so much, there’s no problem with young readers enjoying it. It reminded me of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. With sayings like heathens, hesh up, and swanny, it took me back to my childhood, especially mentioning the book mobile. I loved the illustrations of Winsley’s worry notebook and all the eye twitching was hilarious.

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Just like twelve-year-old Winsley in "Winsley Walker and Other Flying Objects", Nancy Cadle Craddock grew up in Cross Lanes, West Virginia next door to her grandparents. Like Winsley, she often worried about what kind of shenanigans her grandfather and younger brother would come up with next. Many of their escapades are the basis for events in this, her first book. Even so, Nancy reports that her growing up years were magical years where children played outside from morning to night and no one had to check-in or call home because the entire community watched out for all the kids in the neighborhood. It was, she states, a divine time and small town living at its best.