The wizard errant

Adventure

Magic exists, hidden within the folds of the world we know. Wizards live among us, well concealed and in the most unsuspecting forms. Every four years, the eighteen schools of magic compete in a tournament to choose the King of the World.

  • Each book offers an intense adventure filled with twists, discoveries, victories, and defeats.
  • A new, fantastical world just a step away from our own: a unique journey to discover what makes each of us special.
  • Magic rhymes with Nature: adventures set in the most remote and mesmerizing locations on Earth. Each book includes a color photo insert.

THE TOURNAMENT FOR THE KING OF THE WORLD

Every four years, the eighteen schools of magic compete in a tournament to choose the King of the World. An ancient prophecy says that if a Wizard Errant becomes King, a catastrophe will fall on the world of magic… So, the Errant are hunted down and killed in every corner of the world. In escaping, young Calaba meets Floyd, an apparently normal boy who has an innate ability to learn spells… They team up and decide to win the tournament at any cost.

THE VARANASI SORCERERS

Calaba, Floyd, Spenser and their instructor Jack Cade travel six thousand kilometers from Bardonecchia to Varanasi, where the tournament’s next challenge will take place. As the Errant team face their opponents in the jungle on the banks of the Ganges, disturbing news arrives from the world of magic. It looks like the warning of a wise sorceress is true: Watch out for your friends, Jack Cade, because this is a tournament like no other… Magic as it has never been told before. The greatest mysteries and the strongest talents are on the streets.

THE SEVEN BRACELETS

The Errant team must reach Mongolia to face the Air wizards, who attempt to kill their challengers even before they reach their destination. But the storm they raise incredibly reverses course and is about to overwhelm them; it’s up to Floyd, Calaba, Jack Cade and Spenser to prevent it, saving their opponents’ lives. The challenge arrives: whoever wins will have to take on powerful Fire wizard Slender Saunders in the final. Unsuspecting aspiring wizards accompany the reader on a unique journey to discover what makes each of us special.

Publisher: Piemme
Target: 10+
Year: 2019
Author
Pierdomenico Baccalario

Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica, and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.

 

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