Vivian French’s Lottie Luna and the Bloom Garden is a warm, funny school story for 7 year olds about a little werewolf who’d much rather nobody knew she was special.<\/p>\n
Lottie’s Pa has just become king, so the family have moved into crumbly, freezing Dracon Castle (with ZILLIONS of spiders in the bathroom). Worse still, it’s her first day at a new school, right in the middle of term.<\/p>\n
So she makes a plan. Nobody at Shadow Academy will know she lives in a castle, or that her dad’s a king. She’ll hide her superpowers too. She was born on the night of a full moon AND a lunar eclipse, so she can run like the wind and she’s stronger than her big brother.<\/p>\n
Keeping all that quiet is much harder than it sounds! She was the swimming champion at her old school, so she tells herself to swim slowly and splash a lot. Then a tiny cub falls into the lake and Lottie’s in after him before she’s had a chance to think.<\/p>\n
There’s a garden competition going on as well. If the children can make the wasteland behind the school beautiful, it’s theirs. If not, it could be sold off for a road. Lottie dreams up a Bloom Garden full of white flowers that look extra lovely in the moonlight. Then someone starts wrecking it.<\/p>\n
Was it Awful Aggie, who wanted pink paths and pink lemonade fountains? And why does the new deputy head get so cross whenever Lottie goes near the garden? Your reader will be guessing right along with her.<\/p>\n
The best bit is how real Lottie’s worries feel. She’s nervous about making friends, she blurts things out and then wishes she hadn’t, and she misses her small, cosy old house. Wilf and Marjory are exactly the friends you’d want on a first day (Wilf’s pet rat has been banned for knocking over the paint pots).<\/p>\n
If you’ve got a reader who’s starting somewhere new, or who worries about fitting in, they’ll probably recognise a lot of this. And if they just love a cosy mystery with a sprinkle of magic, it’s a very easy one to get stuck into.<\/p>\n
If they want more of Lottie and her very royal secret, try Lottie Luna and the Giant Gargoyle. It’s in the library too. This time there’s a school talent show and every family gets a grand invitation, which means the king and queen as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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