The Wanderstone

Episodes

• The Wanderstone — The Longest Night — Hold your breath. On a frozen lake, in a screaming blizzard, a boy named Theo kneels in the snow, not moving. On ice so thin it groans, a snow-pup shakes, too scared to come — and behind him the only way home fades to grey. One running step and the ice cracks through. So Theo, who can’t wait five minutes for a biscuit, must do the thing he’s worst at: hold still, and wait. How did he get HERE? Don’t rush this bit.
• The Wanderstone — The Cove in the Dark — Right now, this very second, Theo is up to his chest in cool dark seawater in a pitch-black pirate cove, a broken ship creaking and tipping above him and the tide climbing his chest — with one small frightened cry out in the dark and a glowing stone the only light in the world. How did the boy most afraid of the dark end up HERE? He said three true words.
• The Wanderstone — The Knot That Wouldn’t — Right now, this very second, a boy named Theo is up to his waist in a warm green sea that is fighting back — a living rope of weed winding tighter round his arm the harder he pulls, a frightened sea-turtle thrashing in a great green snarl, and the only door home slowly knotting itself shut. How did a boy who was just cross about a kite end up HERE, in a tide that grips harder the more you fight it? He stopped pulling — and said one true word.
• The Wanderstone — The Stone in the Box — Right now, this very second, a boy named Theo is hanging off the end of a snapped vine, over a gorge with a very long way down — and up on the cliff a monkey in a little gold crown is laughing at him, holding the only way home. How did an ordinary, scared-of-the-deep-end boy end up dangling HERE? Through a door no bigger than a coin.