I Love My Magic!

by Kelly Leigh Miller, Kelly Leigh Miller (Illustrator)

Overview

In this endearing companion to I Love My Fangs! and I Love My Fur!, a little witch who over-uses her magic must discover whether she can get by without her wand.

Willow LOVES her magic! It’s her favorite part of being a witch; it’s sparkly, it’s fun, and it’s very useful! Maybe even...too useful?

When her wand is taken away after one too many shortcuts, how will Willow be able to get through the day? Can a witch be a witch without magic?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534497696
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Publication date:	07/18/2023
Series:	The I Love My Books
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	10.10(w) x 10.20(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Kelly Leigh Miller is an illustrator and author who loves everything cute and whimsical. She is the author of the Cloud Puppy series, I Love My Fangs!, I Love My Fur!, I Love My Magic!, and many more books. Visit her online at KellyLeighMiller.com.

Kelly Leigh Miller is an illustrator and author who loves everything cute and whimsical. She is the author of the Cloud Puppy series, I Love My Fangs!, I Love My Fur!, I Love My Magic!, and many more books. Visit her online at KellyLeighMiller.com.

Editorial Reviews

2023-04-12
Magic: What’s not to love?

Willow, a young witch, loves her wand, which magically whisks stuff her way when she brandishes it. Everything Willow wants to accomplish, she does. She attributes her very witchiness to it. Alas, the teacher (a mummy in a yellow dress) at the school for cryptids Willow attends confiscates the wand when our witch unfairly uses it to score a goal during a soccer game. Afterward, Willow cleans up, waters the plants, and plays with her mythological schoolmates—a pint-sized Dracula, unicorn, werewolf, and a dragon who uses a wheelchair, among others—without magical intervention. When the wand is returned, Willow claims she’d forgotten about it, realizing she hadn’t needed it. Willow concedes that though her wand’s great, she doesn’t have to use it for everything to be a witch. She seems to understand her own abilities and talents are what’s really magical, and she can be a witch without the wand. Intended to reassure readers about their own strengths, this message may go over more literal-minded children’s heads, who might wonder how someone can be a witch without their powers. The vividly colored digital illustrations fare better: They’re lively and sweetly appealing, and the cryptid students are endearing. Unusually, text is set in all capitals. Exuberant, purple-haired Willow has light-brown skin; other humanoid characters are diverse in skin tone. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

A cheery reminder that true magic lies within. (Picture book. 4-7)

Kirkus Reviews