by Pierdomenico Baccalario
Good children's fantasy series. Well written w/ spunky characters.
I enjoyed this book...picked a brand-new copy up from the IMCPL Book Sale for $1.00. I would have liked it even better if there had still been copies for sale the next weekend. I only bought one so I could read it before deciding whether to buy some as gifts for my 4th grade students.The book clai...
Very interesting combination of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" and "Over Sea, Under Stone" in style and atmosphere, plus it had a bunch of riddles to solve and codes to break, which always fascinates me. Obviously aimed at a much younger audience, but it still had enough going for it to keep...
This is apparently the first installment of a potentially very lengthy Italian series, cf., Geronimo Stilton. But, since it's got a mysterious house, that is a star character, and time travel, and puzzles to solve, I was able to ignore the really shallow characterizations of the kids.
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