Wild Robert provides the fizz in this outing from master fantasist
Jones, the first US edition of a 1989 novella. Heather is
significantly put out by living at Castlemaine, the stately home
where her mum and dad are curators, and where, every morning, the
tourists descend, driving Heather out. When she seeks solitude at
the legendary grave of the witch, Wild Robert, she compounds her
miseries tenfold by inadvertently summoning him. Charismatic,
determined, and thoroughly wicked, in short order he has turned the
older tourists into sheep and randy teenagers into satyrs, and has
menaced a group of schoolchildren with monstrous frozen treats-but
Heather finds the results of Wild Robert's magic more alarming than
appealing for all its aptness. The brevity of the story limits the
action to one day-the effective period of Wild Robert's magic-but
it's a busy one, at the end of which both Heather and the reader
will see the pathos behind Wild Robert's frenetic chaos. Minor
Jones to be sure, but still entirely intelligent and engaging.
(Fiction. 8-12) (Kirkus Reviews)
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'Wild Robert, I just wish you were really under there''
Wild Robert is a gentle, charming ghost, who is half a magician (on his mother's side). At Heather's summons, he returns after 350 years and is horrified by the antics of the tourists at his once home, Castlemaine House. Since he is a ghost who haunts by day, he plays some wonderfully wicked magical jokes on the unwanted visitors.
For confident young readers, with short chapters and illustrations throughout.
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