The Wizards of Once : Knock Three Times (Book 3) by Cressida Cowell
Planet Books Review:
The Wizards of Once series is a glorious romp full of unreasonable adults, awkwardly talented children and mad magical creatures. Knock Three Times is the third venture into the world of Xar, the wizard boy with no magic and Wish, the warrior girl with an affinity toward dangerous magical objections and wow it is so much fun.
The children and their motley crew of various sidekicks are on a quest to find all the ingredients to a spell that will get rid of all witches. The quest takes them to a school- which is definitely not Hogwarts- swings by unreasonable parents and right into the lair of the monstrous Nuckalavee.
The joy of author Cressida Cowell’s writing is, in my view, true to the way children think and speak while keeping language and story lines a challenge. If I had found this book when I was eight I would have dived headfirst into this world of quests, uncontrollable powers, sprites called Squeezjoos and evil witches who always speak backwards. I mean, really, who doesn’t love a world with talking spoons, evil eyes and mythically nasty creatures with something stuck in their throat?
Review by Emily Mills
About The Author:
Cressida Cowell is the author and the illustrator of the bestselling How to Train Your Dragon and The Wizards of Once book series, and the author of the Emily Brown picture books, illustrated by Neal Layton. How to Train Your Dragon has sold over 8 million books worldwide in 38 languages. It is also an award-winning DreamWorks film series, and a TV series shown on Netflix and CBBC. The first book in Cressida's new series, The Wizards of Once (also signed by DreamWorks), is a number one bestseller. Cressida is an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and the Reading Agency, a Trustee of World Book Day and a founder patron of the Children's Media Foundation. She has won numerous prizes, including the Gold Award in the Nestle Children's Book Prize,the 2017 Ruth Rendell Award for Championing Literacy, 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.
Book Details:
ISBN: 9781444941470
Publication Date: 24/9/2019
Publisher: Hachette Children’s Books
Binding: Paperback
Genre: Young Adult