Review
'titles that work on five- and six- year- old boys at bedtime and keep that enthusiasm for storytelling alive.'
'Oliver Moon is the kiddies' Harry Potter'
Product Description
Enter the world of Oliver Moon, Junior Wizard, in these fun illustrated adventures full of gruesome details, extraordinary characters and a massive dose of magic. Oliver Moon is the hardest working wizard at Magic School and now he's been nominated for Young Wizard of the Year. But at home he has to cope with his seriously embarrassing unmagical parents. What will the judges say when they find out that the Moons use a microwave instead of a cauldron and a car instead of a broomstick?
From the Back Cover
Oliver Moon works hard at Magic School, practising his spellcraft, toad-training and broomstick-flying. But when he's entered for the Young Wizard of the Year award he finds he's up against the head boy, Merlin Spoonbender. Can Oliver cook up an extra-special potion to win the prize?
About the Author
Sue Mongredien was born in Nottingham in 1970. She read English at Leeds University, then moved to London after graduating. She worked as an editor of Children's Books at Random House and Transworld before leaving to travel around the world for 18 months. Back in the UK, she worked for OUP, then the BBC. She lives in Brighton with her partner and three children and writes for a living. She has over 60 children's books published.
Excerpted from Oliver Moon & the Potion Commotion (Book 1) by Sue Mongredien, Jan McCafferty. Copyright © 2006. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Chapter One
Oliver Moon was the hardest working junior wizard at Magic School.
He was smashing at Spellcraft.
He was tip-top at Toad Training.
And as for his broomstick flying ... it was absolutely brilliant!
"One of our most promising pupils," Mrs. MacLizard, the head teacher, had written in his last school report. "If he could just perfect his potion brewing, he'd be dynamite."
But potion brewing wasn't Oliver's biggest problem. Oh, no. His biggest problems were at home. One problem was his mum. The other problem was his dad. And actually, the Witch Baby was a bit of a problem, too.
Oliver knew his mum and dad weren't the worst witch and wizard in the world. Not quite.
They hadn't "Gone Good" like Hattie Toadtrumper's mum and dad.
They weren't knee-knockingly scary like Boris Batbottom's mum and dad.
And they definitely weren't super-strict like poor old Pippi Prowlcat's parents.
No, Oliver's mum and dad were just eye-poppingly awful at being a witch and wizard. They didn't have a clue. It was very embarrassing.
