The stories in this list are adventures
set in a world of magic. There is a separate
list for books like are like Harry Potter - books with magic as well as
lots of laughs.
- His Dark Materials series by Philip
Pullman (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.)
- The Dark is Rising series by Susan
Cooper In order: Over sea, under stone, The Dark is rising, Greenwitch, The
Grey King, Silver on the tree.
- Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
- The Wizard of Earthsea series by
Ursula Le Guin
- The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien. This leads
into The Lord of the Rings, which is a massive book you can find in the adult
library, but which quite a lot of children love too. The film of this is coming
out at Christmas.
- The Magician's House Quarter by
William Corlett
- Jenny Nimmo
- The chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd
Alexander.
- Alan Garner
- The Borderlands sequence by Ann Coburn
- Catherine Fisher
- Toby Forward's Wyvern series
- Tamora Pierce
- Robin Jarvis Various series, such as
The Deptford Mice, the Whitby Series, and The Thorn Ogres of Hagwood
- Tanith Lee
- Kate Thompson
- William Nicholson
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