About the Book and Author
From Simon Farnaby is another hilarious adventure for a girl called Rose and her ancient relative Merdyn, who happens to be the greatest wizard of the Dark Ages. Joining them is Bubbles the guinea pig who still can’t stop pooing!!!
If you missed the first of their adventures here is our kid’s review of The Wizard in My Shed
Simon Farnaby is an actor, writer, and comedian best known as a member of the Horrible Histories troupe in which he starred in the TV series Horrible Histories, Yonderland and Ghosts. He has written and starred in films such as Paddington 2 and Mindhorn, and in the BBC sitcom Detectorists.
You can here him in talking about his writing by listening to our podcast.
Claire Powell is an illustrator, writer and designer who has spent several years as a design director in the world of channel rebranding working for clients such as Nickelodeon, BBC Three, CBBC and BBC One.
Book Review
Just from the first page I knew that this book was going to be good because of how much action was going on from the start
The reason why I liked this book is because of all the cool magic and spells.There was lots of exciting stuff going on. There were cliffhangers which made me want to keep reading and there were funny parts as well. As I was reading it I realised you don’t need to read the first book (The Wizard in My Shed) All you need to know is who the characters are.
My favourite character is the guinea pig called Bubbles which is also the name of my guinea pig!
I like him because he is very funny and sarcastic and there is bit in a chapter about him which I loved, it was hilarious and made me laugh so much.
Just from the first page I knew that this book was going to be good because of how much action was going on from the start.
Also, a thing I liked about the book was that there were facts in it at the bottom of the page about something that was said in the text.
The illustrations were also very good.
I think they really described the characters personalities and the expressions on the characters faces were really good. It described how they where feeling and what they they were about to do.
So, over all this book is very, very good. I definitely recommend it.
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Reviewer Profile
- Name: Bella
- Age: 10 years
- Likes: reading, dancing and drawing
- Dislikes: spiders and sprouts
- Favourite Book: Tom Gates: Top of the Class by Liz Pichon
- Favourite Film: The Order of the Phoenix
- Favourite Song: I Have Nothing by Whitney Houston
