By Alex Stears (author)
"A funny, easy to read story with engaging illustrations with a positive message for young readers."
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Magical mishaps help Mustard the Dragon to embrace his individuality. Mr Wiz is a wizard whose spells don’t always go to plan, but will he be able to help Mustard become the biggest dragon in the world ever? This picture book uses some magical mishaps to highlight the importance of being yourself and learning to like who you are.
With short, succinct text and accompanying bright, full page illustrations we see Mustard transform multiple times, just not into the massive dragon he was wanting. The repetition will be fun for younger readers to join in with after each transformation and then have a laugh at how each spell goes a little bit wrong.
After one particularly grand transformation, Mustard decides he wants to go back to normal and embraces his individuality and a new friendship is formed. A funny, easy to read story with engaging illustrations with a positive message for young readers.
Charlotte Walker, A LoveReading Ambassador
Mr Wiz is a well-intentioned but bumbling wizard whose spells never quite work as planned. One day Mustard the Dragon arrives, hoping to become the biggest dragon in the world, Mr Wiz’s attempts to help go amusingly awry. The adventure ends with Mustard happily embracing his individuality, and a magical new friendship blossoming between him and Mr Wiz.
Alex Stears is an author, playgroup leader, and stay-at-home Dad who has been living in Hong Kong for over a decade. Originally from the UK, Alex's passion for storytelling and writing was reignited while entertaining his daughters.
When his eldest daughter was around three and a half, she asked him to start telling her stories every night at dinner (but he wasn’t allowed to repeat any). He loved doing this until one day, after having told her hundreds of stories, he realised he had completely run dry.
He couldn’t think of anything. Nothing. Zip. His mind was completely blank.
He didn’t know what to do.
He knew that she would be expecting another story, but he didn’t have any!
This could only end in tears—and who wants a soggy dinner?
That’s when inspiration struck, and Mr. Wiz appeared (a wizard whose spells always go wrong).
That night, he told her his first Mr. Wiz story, and they both fell in love with it.
Alex now has two Mr. Wiz stories published (with a third in the works). He loves having the opportunity to visit schools and bring his characters to life through narrating his books. He also enjoys leading interactive workshops with children, helping to inspire a love of reading and writing.
Mr Wiz is a well-intentioned but bumbling wizard whose spells never quite work as planned. One day Mustard the Dragon arrives, hoping to become the biggest dragon in the world, Mr Wiz’s attempts to help go amusingly awry.
Mr Wiz and The Dragon features in the following genres: Indie Author Books , Indie Books We Love, Recommendations
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Mr Wiz and The Dragon was written by Alex Stears and published by Bumblebee Books
Mr Wiz and The Dragon has 41 pages
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