Description
By (author) Coelho Joseph; Illustrated by We, Hyun Song
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Genies grant wishes! That’s all anyone ever cares about. They forget that genies were imprisoned in those lamps for a reason…
Praise for Book 1:
“A witty, fast-paced adventure from the children’s laureate.” Guardian
From the former UK Children”s Laureate, winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing and author of the Fairytales Gone Bad series, comes the second instalment in an action-packed fantasy adventure trilogy.
Ravenna, the king of evil genies, has taken over Taya”s body and has gone underground finding powerful genie allies … its over to Relic and the Hermitic Sodality of Genie Hunters to try and stem the flood of chaos! But one genie proves a bigger threat than all the others combined: The Archivist was a terrible genie, so terrible that his lamp was kept hidden in Windsor Castle for centuries. Relic and the team must get to it before Ravenna…
Features 20 black-and-white illustrations throughout from Korean artist Hyun Song We, an animator who has worked on Pixar films including Inside Out 2.
Biographical note:
Joseph Coelho was the Waterstones Children’s Laureate 2022–2024, and is an award-winning writer. In 2024 he won the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing for The Boy Lost in the Maze and was awarded an OBE for his services to the arts, to children’s reading and to literature. His picture books include If All the World Were… illustrated by Allison Colpoys and the Luna Loves… series illustrated by Fiona Lumbers. His poetry books for children include Overheard in a Tower Block illustrated by Kate Milner, A Year of Nature Poems illustrated by Kelly Louise Judd, and his novel in verse, The Girl Who Became a Tree. Follow him on Instagram as @josephcoelhoauthor.
Korean artist
Hyun Song We has a background in animation and has worked on a number of Pixar films including Inside Out 2. Follow him on Instagram as @hyunsong.we.
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