The Wizards of Once: Book 1

Name: The Wizards of Once: Book 1
Brand: Hachette Children's Group
SKU: 9781444936728
Price: 11.89 EUR
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By (author): Cressida Cowell

From the bestselling author of How to Train Your Dragon comes an exciting high-adventure series - set in an ancient, magical time, full of Wizards, Warriors, Giants and Sprites.

#1 Sunday Times Bestseller

Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award

This is the story of a young boy Wizard and a young girl Warrior who have been taught since birth to hate each other like poison; and the thrilling tale of what happens when their two worlds collide.

Perfect for boys and girls who love fantasy adventure...

Once there was Magic, and the Magic lived in the dark forests. Until the Warriors came...

Xar is a Wizard boy who has no Magic, and will do anything to get it. Wish is a Warrior girl, but she owns a banned Magical Object, and she will do anything to conceal it.

In this whirlwind adventure, Xar and Wish must forget their differences if they're going to make it to the dungeons at Warrior Fort.

Where something that has been sleeping for hundreds of years is stirring...

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Product Details

Weight: 430g
Dimensions: 132 x 200mm
Publication Date: 03 May 2018
Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Age Group: Ages 9-11
ISBN13: 9781444936728

About Cressida Cowell

Cressida Cowell is the author and the illustrator of the globally bestselling How to Train Your Dragon series. Her next series The Wizards of Once was an international bestseller. Cressida is also the author of the Emily Brown picture books illustrated by Neal Layton. The Which Way series is her most recent and has already been translated into 15 languages. How to Train Your Dragon has sold over 8 million books worldwide in 42 languages. It is also an award-winning DreamWorks film series and a TV series shown on Netflix and CBBC. The Wizards of Once has been translated into 38 languages and also signed by DreamWorks. Cressida was the Waterstones Children's Laureate (2019-2022). She is an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and the Reading Agency and a founder patron of the Children's Media Foundation. She has won numerous prizes for her books including the Gold Award in the Nestle Children's Book Prize the Hay Festival Medal for Fiction and Philosophy Now' magazine's 2015 Award for Contributions in the Fight Against Stupidity. She grew up in London and on a small uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland and she now lives in Hammersmith with her husband three children and a dog called Pigeon.