Enter a secret wonderland in the sky where Japanese legends come to life.

Twelve-year-old Jonty desperately wants an adventure, but he's stuck at home for the summer. Then he meets a talking bonobo who invites him to enter a magical world behind a Japanese memory gate. There, he will collect wild memories from the time his gramps was a famous primatologist ... and so, his adventure begins.

Behind the gate lies a world filled with mischievous Japanese beings called yōkai, and Jonty must battle a series of hair-raising trials. Plus, there is an evil sky pirate crew who are hellbent on destroying the memories for good ... and they have bows and arrows.

Can Jonty battle the pirate crew before the wadokei watch-clock strikes?

 

William Yamaguchi Dobson was born in Japan, where he developed a love of stories through manga and spent school holidays on his grandparents’ apple farm nestled in the alpine valleys of Nagano prefecture. He is an alumnus of the London Library’s Emerging Writers Programme and was shortlisted for The Bath Children’s Novel Award.

Sawa is an illustrator based on Iwate, Japan and has previously worked on illustrations for music videos.