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The Chronicles of Wetherwhy: the Age of Enchantment – Anna James
Harper Collins September 2024 After the roaring success of her Pages & Co series, Anna James has kicked off an engaging new series with which I am already wholly engaged, as I’m sure will be your readers. Everyone in Whetherwhy has magic, to a greater or lesser extent. And each person’s magic is connected to…
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The Book of Wondrous Possibilities – Deborah Abela
Penguin Australia 2 August 2022 ISBN: 9781761044021 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $16.99 From the opening paragraph this brilliant book simply sparkles with magic and adventure – unsurprisingly, for those of us who have followed Deborah Abela’s writing career for years! My first encounter with this joyful creator was when, as the organiser of an extravaganza showcase at Marrickville Library,…
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The StrangeWorlds Travel Agency : The Edge of the Ocean Book #2 – L. D. Lapinski
Hachette Australia APR 13, 2021 | 9781510105959 | RRP $16.99 Now that Flick is officially a member of the StrangeWorlds Travel Agency, and with one exciting adventure already under her belt, in which she demonstrated some unexpected and remarkable powers, she and Jonathan Mercator are summoned to help another world. This time they are joined by Jonathan’s distant cousin,…
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Starfell: Willow Moss and the Forgotten Tale [Starfell #2]- Dominique Valente
Harper Collins Australia April 2020 ISBN: 9780008308445 ISBN 10: 0008308446 Imprint: HarperCollins – GB List Price: 16.99 AUD Being the youngest in the family is often a reason for feeling overlooked and somehow lesser and for Willow Moss this is especially true. She is both the youngest and the least magical in her family of witches. Even though in…
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The Strangeworlds Travel Agency – L. D. Lapinski
Hachette APR 28, 2020 | 9781510105942 | RRP $16.99 Twelve year old Flick Hudson is really not sure about her family’s move to a village, leaving their rather cramped flat for a much bigger home. Of course their old home wouldn’t have been so squashy if her dribbling, annoying baby brother Freddy hadn’t arrived some time before. With her…
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The Train to Impossible Places: a Cursed Delivery – P. G. Bell
Harper Collins November 2018 ISBN: 9781474948616 ISBN 10: 1474948618 Imprint: Usborne – GB List Price: 19.99 AUD Like Suzy you would no doubt be astonished to wake up in the middle of the night to find a very grumpy troll laying railway tracks straight through your house. And even more astounded when a gigantic steam train comes rumbling through…
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Begone the Raggedy Witches (The Wild Magic Trilogy: Book 1) – Celine Kiernan
Walker Australia ISBN: 9781406366020 Imprint: Walker Release Date: April 1, 2018 Australian RRP: $16.99 New Zealand RRP: $18.99 Just wow!! If you have readers who love HP or other magical worlds they are going to love this new series. Set in Ireland with a close family of three generations but one that has secrets. Mup lives with her mum,…
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The City of Secret Rivers – Jacob Sager Weinstein
Walker Books Australia August 2017 ISBN: 9781406368857 RRP $19.99 For children who are keen on fantastical adventures this first volume in a new trilogy will provide a thrilling subterranean ride through the underbelly of London. Hyacinth Hayward and her mother have just arrived to live in the country of their forebears and Hyacinth hates it already.…
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