Review: The Giant Mystery: How to Grow Magic #1

The useful part

This new series for your those independent readers will surely be a big hit with it's combination of magic, humour, friendship, and school – with a difference! Enchantment Street is full of shops and businesses with all manner of magical merchandise and services. Whether you need treats for your pet dragon or want riding lessons with your unicorn, there will be a place to go in Enchantment Street.

How it works

• With human pupils as well as merkids this school has water slipways and ponds alongside desks and chairs and playgrounds.
• Let's just say that the lessons taught are very different to our own curriculum.
• Sarah's favourite lessons are those with Mr Pottifer, of Pottifer's Parlour of Plants, a very engaging Venus flytrap who teaches Magical Gardening.
• Sarah loves his lessons and even helps out in his shop and though there have been a few contretemps of late such as sprouting a whole bunch of unicorns instead of just one, the mishaps have a way of sorting...

Details worth keeping

Enchantment Street Primary is certainly the school of magical delights. Just lately there have been a few too many things going awry. Dandelions suddenly growing with Rockstar hair-dos and sweet pe...