A welcome shift perhaps lies in our hero, Clementine, who celebrates the strong women of traditional tales who had always been there until the Grimms and Perrault shifted the narrative perspective away from them.

Ho sempre sostenuto che una casa non è un luogo fisico, quanto piuttosto un rifugio dell’anima, in grado di farci sentire accolti e accettati, oltre che amati. Il posto magico è un vero gioiellino da conservare in libreria per poterlo leggere ai propri figli quando avranno la giusta età per apprezzarlo. Ever since a short visit with my parents as a teenager, I’d remembered the city as a castle on a rock atop a purple ocean.

Singurul ei prieten este motanul Gilbert, iar visele sunt calea ei de evadare din zilele ei mohorate. Five years later at Sofia’s Lycée Français, I devoured Albert Camus’s L’étranger and felt the murderous hammer of the Algerian sun on that beach. From where I stood on the chipped balcony of Block Number 328, the world was a distant rumour, radio static, something that happened in books. Clementine doesn’t feel as though she belongs and when cleaning one day she finds an object which changes her and her determination to find the magic place grows.

This was an utterly charming book and it was so refreshing to read a tale where there were no references to mobile phones, laptops or Xbox games. For further insight check out the upcoming stops on the blog tour, details of which can be found on the tour banner below.La protagonista és una nena òrfena, i la seva història és força clàssica i m’ha recordat a molts llibres que llegia de petita. I que encara que tenen un estil força clàssic, m’han encantat perquè caracteritzen súper bé els tiets Randina, sobretot la tieta Vermília! Arnold Pan of PopMatters wrote, "Try as you might to explain Julianna Barwick's incomparable, indescribable music, maybe it's best to let The Magic Place do all the talking, because the results speak for themselves". It tells the story of Clementine, a girl whose life consists on living in a dirty cellar, attending to the whims of her ferocious aunt and devious uncle.

Un giorno gli zii decidono di uscire senza chiudere Clementine a chiave nello scantinato e questo permette alla bimba di avventurarsi in soffitta e trovare tutta la loro refurtiva, tra questi un piccolo coniglietto bianco che evoca in lei dei ricordi. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives.

Finalement, au terme de cette longue histoire manichéenne, je ne retiens absolument aucune leçon, aucune morale ni aucunes valeurs défendue. A mix between Harry Potter and Matilda it had so much potential but the latter half just let it down. For my stop on the tour, author Chris Wormell has kindly given us a glimpse into his writing process, and, most importantly, an introduction to the friendship between our heroine Clementine and her cat, Gilbert! The debut children’s novel from the illustrator of Philip Pullman’s Book of Dust sequence, The Magic Place is a timeless fable about breaking free from the dark and embracing a bewitching new world of possibility. Though I must say the vivid descriptions were quite expressive even without the pictures to look at.

He has won a number of literary awards including the Bologna Ragazza Prize, a Nestle Smarties Award and a Booktrust Early Years Award.I was far from the concrete balcony of my childhood, but not so far that I felt removed from myself. The cat Gilbert you’ll adore him, the one character that comes and goes and interacts with every character and also helps to make life better for Clementine.