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The Magic of Magnolia Moon

By Edwina Wyatt
Series: Magnolia Moon
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The Magic of Magnolia Moon by Edwina Wyatt is a charming children's book about a young girl named Magnolia Moon, who navigates the small and significant challenges of growing up. With a touch of magic, her imaginative world helps her handle change, friendship, and family dynamics, all woven through her whimsical adventures. This heartwarming tale beautifully explores the innate wonders and challenges of childhood.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy heartwarming tales about friendship and the whimsical adventures of a young girl. It's perfect for readers who love imaginative narratives and charming characters, with themes of family, love, and the simple joys of life.

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For Magnolia Moon, magic is a way to solve problems. And when you're starting a new class at school and your best friend doesn't live across the road anymore, problems seem to come easily.

In her latest adventure, The Magic of Magnolia Moon invents everyday magic to help her navigate the pitfalls of friendship, school, family, and being ten. A lyrical and imaginative tale which highlights everyday wonders through Magnolia's curious and observant nature.

Series: Magnolia Moon

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  • Magnolia Moon Deluxe Slipcase
    A beautiful boxed set of The Secrets of Magnolia Moon and The Magic of Magnolia Moon! Magnolia Moon was born on a hill in a very great hurry. It was the moon that kissed her first. It put the dimple in her cheek and the coils in her hair. But that is a secret. The Magnolia Moon stories are lyrical...
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  • The Courage of Magnolia Moon
    Magnolia Moon is very good at finding courage. And when you've fought with your best friend and your grandma is sick, it will take great courage to find a way forward. Magnolia Moon returns with a story of the great daring it takes to be ten years old (almost eleven). Whether she's helping a friend be brave, standing up to...
    By Edwina Wyatt
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  • The Magic of Magnolia Moon
    The Magic of Magnolia Moon, for Magnolia Moon, magic is a way to solve problems. And when you're starting a new class at school and your best friend doesn't live across the road anymore, problems seem to come easily. In her latest adventure, Magnolia Moon invents everyday magic to help her navigate the pitfalls of friendship, school, family, and being...
    By Edwina Wyatt
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  • The Magic of Magnolia Moon
    For Magnolia Moon, magic is a way to solve problems. And when you're starting a new class at school and your best friend doesn't live across the road anymore, problems seem to come easily. In her latest adventure, The Magic of Magnolia Moon invents everyday magic to help her navigate the pitfalls of friendship, school, family, and being ten. A...
    By Edwina Wyatt
    Hardback
    $2299
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  • The Secrets of Magnolia Moon
    CBCA award-winning picture book author Edwina Wyatt makes her fiction debut with a whimsical tale of a curious little girl who shares more than just her surname with the moon: They're both excellent secret keepers.Magnolia Moon is nine years old, likes Greek mythology, her best friend Imogen May (who understands the importance of questions like, "If you could be one...
    By Edwina Wyatt
    Hardback
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The Magic of Magnolia Moon by Edwina Wyatt is praised for capturing the whimsical and profound nature of children's thoughts, delivering a timely message about appreciating everyday moments. The book's gentle pencil and watercolour illustrations complement the charming narrative, encouraging readers to notice and celebrate life's ordinary joys. With an atmosphere of gentle anarchy highlighting the importance of friendship, it is an ideal bedtime story for adults and children to enjoy together.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760652722

Publisher: Walker Books Australia

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 06 October 2021

Country: Australia

Imprint: Walker Books Australia

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Katherine Quinn

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 206.0mm

Weight: 343g

Pages: 160

Collections

Children's Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Edwina Wyatt Series: Magnolia Moon Young Adult

About the Author

Edwina Wyatt is an award-winning Australian children’s author. She grew up in Sydney, and worked as a lawyer and a high school teacher before becoming a writer of books for young readers. Her debut junior fiction novel was The Secrets of Magnolia Moon. Edwina lives in the Victorian High Country with her husband and two children. She has a passion for horses, paddocks and pine trees, and is an “aspiring” vegetable gardener and pianist (although she cannot read music…). Some of her favourite authors include David Almond, Arnold Lobel, Virginia Woolf, Astrid Lindgren, Michelle Cuevas, Kate DiCamillo and A.A. Milne.


Katherine Quinn is a New Zealand illustrator and surface pattern textile designer based in Hawkes Bay. She works in both traditional and digital illustration, and her work often focuses on long-limbed, big-eyed girls with a touch of innocence and a sense of adventure.

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