Amelia Dee and the Peacock Lamp

Amelia Dee and the Peacock Lamp is about a girl called Amelia who lived in the green house, with the brick side walls built by Solomon J Wieszacker on Marburg Street, with the peacock lamp at the top of the stairs in the hall outside of her room. In her house lived her mother Angeline who was a sculptor and an artist, her father Armand was an inventor, their maid Mrs Ellis and Mr Vishwanath.

Mr Vishwanath was an old man who was a teacher, he had one student (who was an old lady), only one true student, nobody knew what he taught. Many rumours were spread about him and the old lady that went into his room because she carried messages to him they thought he was a crime boss but Amelia didn’t believe all of the rumours. Amelia would see Mr Vishwanath all of the time because he would sit in the chair out the back and stare at her mother’s sculptures or do yoga poses next to them, sometimes Amelia would sit next to Mr Vishwanath, he would never talk to her but she liked the peacefulness and when he did talk to her it would be a long time after she had said something and often she had forgotten what she had said.

One day Amelia decided that she wanted to know what Mr Vishwanath did with the lady so she waited until her old car pulled up and she went into his studio, after a while she crept into his room taking everything in because it was the first time she had ever been in there and then she found the door, she looked in and the old lady was copying Mr Vishwanath with their feet behind their heads and the old lady who usually looked so cruel looked calm and peaceful with her eyes closed, then she opened her eyes and saw Amelia peeking through the crack in the door and her face turned hard and cold as she said ”How dare you!” Amelia ran away as fast as she could before Mr Vishwanath could turn around and see her.

Later on Amelia decided to apologise to Mr Vishwanath but he only replied with riddles as usual, then he asked Amelia if she wanted to meet the old lady and he also told her she was a princess. Amelia told her friends Eguine and Kevin about this and Eguine went completely insane and told Amelia to bring a gift. Amelia wondered what gift she could give and eventually decided she would write a story about the Peacock Lamp as Amelia often wrote stories. When Amelia met the princess she was stern and told Amelia that she must read her story to her.

The princess has a connection to the lamp but will Amelia Dee make the princess colder or will there be a happily ever after? Read the book to find out. I thought that this book was really great because Amelia wrote stories and you got to read some of them within the book and that was really cool because you got her perspective of things from a different angle.