Epstein, Adam Jay and Andrew Jacobson The Familiars, 368 p. Harper, 2010. $17.
Aldwyn, an alley cat, counts himself lucky – he escaped the persistent hands of the town bounty hunter and seems to have landed a cushy spot as familiar to a young apprentice wizard. He does feel like a bit of a fraud, as he doesn’t have any familiar training, but he loves his new master. When Aldwyn’s human and the other apprentices are captured by the now evil Queen Loranella, the three – cat, bird and frog – must step into the gap and save their world.
Epstein and Jacobsen have crafted an almost perfect elementary fantasy novel – intelligent animals, magic, danger and adventure!
EL – ADVISABLE. Cindy, Library Teacher
Aldwyn, an alley cat, counts himself lucky – he escaped the persistent hands of the town bounty hunter and seems to have landed a cushy spot as familiar to a young apprentice wizard. He does feel like a bit of a fraud, as he doesn’t have any familiar training, but he loves his new master. When Aldwyn’s human and the other apprentices are captured by the now evil Queen Loranella, the three – cat, bird and frog – must step into the gap and save their world.
Epstein and Jacobsen have crafted an almost perfect elementary fantasy novel – intelligent animals, magic, danger and adventure!
EL – ADVISABLE. Cindy, Library Teacher
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