by Caroline Stevermer
Cute? I don't know. Stars an orphaned boy and a brownie. Thomas is nearly unrecognizably flat; Kate barely appears.
Set in the world that Patrica C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer created for their Sorcery and Cecilia books. This book is about Frederick working for Thomas Schofield, training to be a footman. Love Thomas! Anyway, there is a lingering curse set on the Schofield house and Frederick and the brownie, Bi...
This book was recommended to me and I picked it up from the library without even realizing it was a companion novel to the Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot Cecelia and Kate 1 books, which of course, only made it better. This book is for a younger audience. I was a little uncertain ...
Good but brief, this novella about an orphan hired as a servant in a sorcerer's house is set in the alternate-England of Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot but intended for younger readers. I quite liked the protagonist and the plot ideas, but the book as a whole felt a little undeve...
I had no idea Caroline S. was writing more about the Schofield family and this book was a very nice summer treat. It focuses on young Frederick and his fellow servants, rather than Kate and Thomas, but they play a large role as well. For newcomers who have not read all of Caroline Stevermer's previo...
by Caroline StevermerOpening line--"The first time he met Billy Bly, Frederick thought he must be dreaming. Billy Bly looked like a little old man dressed all in green, and came just to Frederick's knee."This is a hard book for me to review. Essentially the problem is that I'm too old for it (*tea...
Magic Below Stairs is a companion novel to the Cecelia and Kate books by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer. It has a slightly younger target audience, and it is not written in a letter/journal format the way the Cecelia and Kate novels are.I definitely want to see more of Frederick, and I rea...
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