Imprint: Young Corgi
Published: 06/10/2005
ISBN: 9780552546898
Length: 96 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 7mm x 129mm
Weight: 74g
RRP: £5.99
The first day at a new school is often tricky, and if the only person who befriends you claims to be a wizard you simply have to make the best of it! Joe is pretty certain that Billy has, as the teacher says, just got an over-active imagination but when he witnesses some pretty odd events at playtime, he's not quite so sure...
This is a really engaging book for newly confident readers, which perfectly captures the way young children speak and behave, in the classroom, the playground and at home. It's a refreshing new take both on bullying and on magic.
Imprint: Young Corgi
Published: 06/10/2005
ISBN: 9780552546898
Length: 96 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 7mm x 129mm
Weight: 74g
RRP: £5.99
A sensitive story about finding your feet and coping with aggression, and particularly notable for the depiction of father-son bonding
Author and illustrator Priestly explores sensitively, and with well judged humour, the developing friendship of Joe and Billy . . . This is a tale of evolving friendship told with warmth
Sure to strike a chord . . . [Chris Priestley's] wry observation that it's not just children who can be bashful hits home too
Entertaining and amusing
An interesting, pacey story