I present to you a breathtakingly beautiful book that would make an enchanting gift for any young witches and wizards in waiting. With a gold foil-embossed cloth cover, a ribbon marker and sprayed gold edges this is a stunning book and would make the perfect present for anyone intrigued by magic. Inside young readers will find intriguing sketches and precise notes detailing the secret history of magic and its dazzling array of practices around the globe. This book is a delight to hold and is a wonderful read filled with all there is to know about magic in our world. This book will help young readers learn to spot magic and teach them how to channel it.
This book is A Natural History of Magick
This book makes a perfect companion read for The Bewitching of Aveline Jones, Esther’s current favourite book. It tells of potions, charms, stone circles, talismans, powerful herbs, sacred trees, ley lines and familiars.
The illustrations by Jessica Roux are stunning showing the magic, awe and wonder of the natural world. Poppy David writes the book from the perspective of loving grandfather to a grandson, he happens to be a naturalist who has travelled the globe and has discovered magic. He has created a precious scrapbook and now we can read it, if we dare!
“The world of magick is as real as the stars, as strong as the force of a wave crashing against the sand and as unstoppable as the seasons. It is all around us. It is not a trick or a game but a natural force, present across the world. I have seen before my eyes men and women take energy from the sun, the moon and even from the very air we breathe and turn it into magick so powerful that I dare not dwell what would happen if it got into the wrong hands.”
This is definitely the kind of book Aveline and Harold would pore over while on one of their supernatural adventures. Filled with facts and findings, scribbled notes, photographs, sketches, diagrams and illustrations. Through the pages of this book readers travel back in time and around the globe. There are different types of magic to discover from ancient times through to The Magick Circle of modern times. We can learn astrology, tarot reading, numerology and more. We can read about magical potions and charms, how magick can be used to control the weather! We are encouraged to explore and experience the magic of Mother Earth, to learn about the powers of healing crystals. We can arm ourselves with knowledge of powerful and perilous plants.
There is so much to learn from this wonderful book and so much to fire up the imaginations of those readers with a fascination with magick. A connection to magick.
This is a perfect middle grade read for the spooky season and it will sit well alongside so many autumnal / Halloween stories. This is also a stunning standalone book, perfect to read by candlelight, beside a roaring log fire when the weather is wild outside. Perfect to read inside a stone circle by moonlight or under the duvet with a torch.
Are you ready for a magical journey like no other? Then you need to read this book.
“Magick is so much more than waving a wand and uttering a spell. It is all around us – we just need to look carefully.”
We were sent a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review