Charmed Life
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This issue’s cover, illustrated by David Wyatt, is from Geraldine McCaughrean’s The Kite Rider (0 19 271860 6, £6.99 pbk) due to be published in March. Geraldine McCaughrean is interviewed by Stephanie Nettell. Thanks to Oxford University Press for their help in producing this January cover.
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Charmed Life
Tom Baker
Charmed Life, the first in the Worlds of Chrestomanci series, is a delightful story of childhood wizardry with both the fun and tricksiness and the responsibility that it brings with it. A bad-tempered girl, Gwendolen, is also a witch with outstanding powers. Resolving these two characteristics under the guidance of the great enchanter, Chrestomanci, is told in a way that is both funny and forthright. But Tom Baker, for all that his Dr Who past gives him magical authenticity, sounds too old to bring the freshness of Gwendolen and her brother Eric (or Cat), perfectly to life.