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Pure Dead Magic


Pure Dead

No. of pages 224

Published: 2013

Great for age 9-12 years

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All is not well at StregaSchloss, home of the bizarre but lovable Strega-Borgia clan. Mum's attempts to improve her witchcraft skills are failing miserably. Dad has stormed out in a fit of pique. Titus is virtually umbilically attached to his computer. Pandora is seriously bored. And Baby Damp is getting her fat little fingers into everything around.Enter wonder-nanny Mrs McLachlan - she'll soon sort out the Strega-Borgia children, and their parents too, but will she cope with the presence of mythical beasts in the basement, to say nothing of the unexpected arrival of four hit-men, including one in a rabbit suit?

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Pure Dead .

This book has been graded for interest at 9-11 years.

There are 224 pages in this book. This book was published in 2013 by Penguin Random House Children's UK .

Debi Gliori has written and illustrated more than 40 children's titles. In the UK she has been shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway medal.

 

This book is in the following series:

Pure Dead

"Debi Gliori's first novel is an unbridled fantasy with elements of the Addams family, a hint of Gormenghast and overtones of the mafia, together with computer technology and some parody, all blended into a heavy brew that is laugh-out-loud funny" * The Bookseller *

 

"It's a gallimaufry of ghastly, giggly stuff" * Financial Times *

 

"Fluent and energetic" * The Sunday Times *

 

"Features one of the most eccentric families in children's fiction . . . A rollicking red, which rapidly draws the reader into its strange and gothic world" * Waterstones Books Quarterly *

 

"Wonderful stuff" * Daily Telegraph *