As the third moon rises over Muddle Earth’s Perfumed Bog, the twinkling lights are lit on a small houseboat, home to a wizard, Randalf, and his familiar, a very sarcastic budgie called Veronica. Randalf is in trouble – he’s stony broke. He’s just spent his last silver pipsqueak.
There’s only one way for a wizard to make cash on Muddle Earth – and that’s by doing some magic. There’s just one problem: Randalf has lost his spell book. He’s just got a fragment of paper with half a spell on it – telling him how to summon a Great Warrior Hero.
The last one, Quentin the Cake-Baker, wasn’t a great success. But this time, it’s going to be different. And life is about to change beyond recognition for an ordinary schoolboy on ordinary earth – Joe Jefferson – and his dog, Henry. Welcome to a world of ogres and goblins, batbirds and pink stinky hogs, flying cupboards and terrifying teddy bears . . .
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