Mortal Engines

Mortal Engines is a super cool story about a city called London, but not the London you know! This London is a HUGE machine, like a giant robot with wheels, that moves around the Earth. It's so big, it's like a whole city on wheels! This giant machine has to keep moving because the world is running out of important stuff, like food and fuel. It's a bit like a scavenger hunt, but with cities!

This giant London machine is a 'Traction City'. It has giant wheels and tracks to roll across the land. When it sees a smaller town or city on wheels, it chases it down!

Then, using big metal arms and gears, it pulls the smaller town closer and eats it up. It's like a giant monster truck eating smaller toy cars. The smaller towns are broken down, and London takes all their useful bits to keep itself running.

Mortal Engines is a book that won some really cool awards, like the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize! It's part of a series of four books, so the adventure keeps going. It even became a movie in 2018!

The story makes you think about what happens when there isn't enough for everyone and how people might have to do strange things to survive. It's a thrilling adventure with lots of action and cool inventions.

The amazing story of Mortal Engines was written by a person named Philip Reeve. He published the first book in 2001. He imagined a future where the world had changed a lot, and people had to build these giant moving cities to survive. It's a type of story called 'steampunk', which means it has old-fashioned technology mixed with futuristic ideas, like steam-powered machines and cool goggles!