#BookReview #Guestreviewer: Douglas Park. Wizarding For Beginners by Elys Dolan @ElysDolan @OxUniPress #WizardingForBeginners #ElysDolan #1streview #kidreviewer #kidapproved #childrensfiction #summerreadingchallenge

Good morning everyone I’m a proud mum today as I’m posting my son’s first review. Douglas is 8 and a very keen reader, particularly when the books are about magic. He decided to sit down and write a review himself for this book as he really enjoyed it.

Book Synopsis:

Best friends Dave and Albrecht are going undercover. They must disguise themselves as wizards to enter the notoriously secretive Wizarding Guild, in order to free their friends and stop the most evil wizard of them all – Terrence. Luckily, they have the perfect book to help them on their quest, the amazing, the brilliant, Wizarding for Beginners!

Wizarding For Beginners is out now in paperback. Purchase your copy using the links below.

Douglas’s Review:

The story was about a talking goat and a small dragon called Dave and they snuck into a wizard’s castle to find out what Terrence was doing, maybe something mischievous?

I like magic books because I find them interesting as magic is amazing! My biggest dream is that I can do magic in real life and really impress people. For me it was an adventure book but you might look at it differently. It was like an action-packed book with lots of funny parts.

My favourite character was the talking goat who saved everyone’s life. I liked reading about him as I found him very funny, exotic and a bit embarrassing. The dragon and the goat were great friends because they used great teamwork and had excellent confidence together as well. I related most to the dragon as I love books, plus if I was magic this would be a good book to have as I could look up ways to help my friends.

It was an amazing book to read. The title when I started reading was really exciting and the book was actually really cool and exciting, an adventure for me. I hope you enjoy it too.

About The Author:

Elys Dolan is an author and illustrator currently living and working in Cambridge. She works predominantly with ink, newfangled digital witchcraft and coloured pencils (of which she is the proud owner of 178, but can never seem to find a sharpener). When not doing pictures and making things up Elys enjoys growing cacti, collecting pocket watches and eating excessive amounts of fondant fancies.

In recent times Elys has been shortlisted for the AOI Awards, the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Branford Boase Award and the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. She won the 2018 Laugh Out Loud Picture Book Award with Mr Bunny’s Chocolate Factory.