The Magician Next Door

Winnifred is a magician with a problem: her flying house has crash-landed in the middle of the countryside. The negative energy emanating from a particular cottage has clashed with the mechanisms of magical house removal. A young girl called Callie is the source of such sadness that could bring down......more

4.5** (or at least this is how my younger self would've rated this book) This book took me on a nostalgic kind of adventure - the kind I loved back when I was still reading Rainbow Magic books and The Bliss Bakery books in elementary. I loved the characters, I loved the setting, and I loved the simpl......more

Aug 2024: The Magician Next Door Oh, I never expect the theme of this book! There is ten-year-old Callie, who just moved to North Ireland due to her father's new job. Callie had a hard time adjusting and blamed her father. She missed her old house, her best friend Mia and the memory of her late mother......more

Callie is one of the typical girls in books like this – grieving for her deceased mother and angry that she has been moved, with her dad, from her home and friends in busy London to the silence and remoteness of Northern Ireland. There lives one potential new friend thereabouts, but as she's spent t......more

Whimsical fantasy mixes with gentle adventure to form a magical read, which lets imagination take flight. Callie wishes she could just go back to London, but her father claims that his new job allows him more time to spend with her and relaxes life in general. But she misses her friends and her mom.......more