The Lost Magician

By Author / Illustrator

Piers Torday

Genre

Adventure

Publisher

Hachette Children's Group

ISBN

9781786540515

Format

Hardback

Published

06-09-2018

Synopsis

'If you can imagine it, it exists ... somewhere.' The new spellbinding fantasy adventure from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Last Wild trilogy.

1945. They have survived the Blitz, but when Simon, Patricia, Evelyn and Larry step through a mysterious library door, it is the beginning of their most dangerous adventure yet. They discover the magical world of Folio, where an enchanted kingdom of fairy knights, bears and tree gods is under threat from a sinister robot army.

The many stories of the Library are locked in eternal war, and the children's only hope is to find their creator - a magician who has been lost for centuries.

What they find will change not just their own lives, but the fate of the world, for ever ...

An ode to the world of Narnia, The Lost Magician is a classic in the making from one of the UK's most talented children's authors.

Praise for Piers Torday:
'the new master of books for children who like magic and modernity with their lust for adventure' - The Times

Reviews

'If you can imagine it, it must exist somewhere'. The latest book from Piers Torday is a story which, even within the first chapter, seems oddly familiar to a timeless classic... four children (two girls and two boys), good magic battling the darker realms of sinister characters who wish to destroy the world as we know it? It is even set during WW2 and a door is required to move into this other world... and yet, just like the classic, this is exactly why you keep turning the pages and keep rooting for the heroes of this magical story that is surely set to stick around just as long as the one we have all come to know and treasure. Set in 1945, Simon, Patricia, Evie and Larry find themselves suddenly catapulted into the world of books which is initially the escape they need from the horrors and aftermath of WW2. However, they soon find themselves in a world with reads, unreads and never reads (pronounced read as in red not read as in reed!) The story of good vs evil begins. Unreads are fact-based books whereby everything is logical and therefore they cannot comprehend why fiction deserves a place in their world. With a battle brewing, the children must depend on each other, but most importantly on themselves, to bring the world to order before all of the stories are lost forever. To do this, they must find 'The Lost Magician'. Scan read this and you will be fooled into thinking you have already read this years ago but look closely and you may just read an essential and gutsy homage to C.S Lewis, the world of fiction and how the world needs libraries and books to survive. TOP KNOTCH I SAY! 304 pages / Ages 8+ / Reviewed by Leanne Woolcock, teacher.