{"id":222460,"date":"2025-10-24T10:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/222460\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:53:07","slug":"blue-peter-book-club-the-train-of-dark-wonders-by-alex-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/222460\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Peter Book Club: The Train of Dark Wonders by Alex Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Train of Dark Wonders is bursting with imagination and creepy critters! Alex Bell&#8217;s story takes hero Bess Harper and her friends on an unforgettable journey between worlds. Check out the synopsis:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bess has always loved her grandfather\u2019s collection of curiosities. So she\u2019s delighted when she\u2019s handed the keys to his Odditorium. But unless she finds a way to draw in the crowds, she\u2019ll have to close its doors for good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When a mysterious train pulls into town, bound for The Land of Halloween Sweets, Bess hatches a plan and sneaks onboard. She is soon discovered by Beau the puppeteer, Louie the violinist and Maria the fire witch. Eager to join their adventure, Bess sets out to search for the rarest sweet of all \u2013 the ghostly gobstopper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the land is ruled by the fearsome Candymaker. And beneath the sugary surface, things are more dangerous than they first appear&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Train of Dark Wonders is bursting with imagination and creepy critters! Alex Bell&#8217;s story takes hero Bess&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-222460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}