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Solving magical mysteries in Victorian Edinburgh
24 Mar 2018

Solving magical mysteries in Victorian Edinburgh

by Zoe | posted in: Robert J. Harris | 1

Next week all the residents at Playing by the Book Towers are decamping to Edinburgh for a few days of mischief and mayhem (involving lots of harps and dancing, cats and cakes) and so it’s especially enjoyable for us to … Continued

Detectives, Dragons, Magic, Scotland
The Moon Spun Round
4 Dec 2017

The Moon Spun Round

by Zoe | posted in: Noreen Doody, Shona Shirley Macdonald, W. B. Yeats | 0

Today’s poem in my girl’s Poetree Calendar is The Cat and The Moon by W. B. Yeats, which I discovered in The Moon Spun Round: W. B. Yeats for Children, edited by Noreen Doody (@noreen_doody) and illustrated by Shona Shirley … Continued

Cats, Magic, Poetry
The Apprentice Witch by James Nicol
14 Jul 2016

The Apprentice Witch by James Nicol

by Zoe | posted in: James Nicol | 2

With a good-heartedness and open-eyed optimism free of cynicism, echoing classic books from an earlier generation, James Nicol‘s début novel, The Apprentice Witch combines immense comfort-reading with a bewitchingly perfect dose of mystery, suspense and magic. Despite failing to graduate … Continued

Courage, Friendship, Magic, Mystery, Witches and Wizards

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