Damian seems adventurous because he explores around the town to find the saints he is looking for and the crooks who stole the money. I would recommend this story to anyone above the age of ten, for there is some difficult language that would be hard for children to understand. I don't read children's fiction very often, but this one was recommended to me so I thought I'd give it a whirl.

But instead his life gets a whole lot more complicated, when a sack of money comes flying out of the sky and lands in his hermitage. And he has plenty of ideas what to do with this money, all of which end up not at all what he intended. It was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2008 and the inaugural Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Damian's mother has recently died, and he has become obsessed with the lives of the Saints, learning about them, emulating them, even seeing them in visions. The writing was very well-paced for a television generation, since the author wrote Millions first as a screenplay it maintains a highly visual and plot-driven style.Jedna od meni dražih dečjih knjiga (u kojima mogu da uživaju i odrasli), koja je zabavna, duhovita i.

I think that if the book included more action and events occurring then it could be better but the book didn’t take any big unexpected turns and didn’t include anything adventurous or out of the ordinary which is what I didn’t like. As a child I would have read and enjoyed this several times, for the simple adventure once, and then a reread for figuring out the mysteries and puzzles and the how-to of economics, and then a nostalgic reread would have given me a chance to appreciate Damian's obsession and visions. It is an adaptation of his screenplay for the film Millions, although it was released six months before the film (September).Damian's obsession with "being excellent" made him an unusual and memorable main character whose circular, well-intentioned and slightly batty attempts to make sense of adult worry-logic and comfort himself with it would resonate with anxious conscientious young readers.

The novel Millions takes place in the early 2000s in the suburbs of London, England and is about two young brothers in middle school and their father. They think of two different suspects but eventually they find their money and end up with 20,345 Euros.

They solve the conflict by Damian saying “what if we find some saints and give some money to them then let’s donate some to the poor”. While I adored Damien's saint-fixation and his brother's promiscuous obsession with finance, I felt the book ending with some moral ambiguity. I totally understood Damian's obsession with saints after his mother passed away, and his need to be pious and excellent. He was always optimistic and his happiness was very contagious for me as a reader and his personality and point of view for the story was very different from any other first person book I’ve read. Cottrell Boyce won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians, recognising the year's best children's book published in the UK.

However I think that making the characters younger helped me to relate to them a little bit and I’m sure other people experience some of the situations that are touched upon in this book. Even with all the fun and twists that transpire as one grand scheme leads to the next, Boyce also conveys the message that, indeed, money can be a burden. There's just one problem -- they have only seventeen days to spend all the money before it becomes worthless. I actually listened to the audiobook, which was even more hilarious than the book, due to the great voice of the narrator.Having worked with director Danny Boyle on Millions, Danny asked Frank to be part of the team creating the Opening Ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics. The structure of the novel is neat and clear, simplistic vocabulary is used and the variety of characters is pleasing.