Review: Good Clean Fun for Young Readers
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 2, 2012
This book reminded me of others about magical children's adventures that I read when younger such as Carbonel, King of the Cats, by Barbara Sleigh, and The 13th is Magic by Joan Howard.The characters are charming and realistic, as noted by other reviewers. Events flow one from the other, so the action moves along swiftly without the gore and mayhem that seems typical videogame and film fare these days.There is not much of the world-building that we have come to expect of fantasies, such as the Harry Potter series. Instead, magic exists easily albeit hidden in a world that reflects the children's perspective.I read this as an adult, but it is very much like the stories I love as a kid.