Author: Lauren Crozier
Publisher: Text Publishing
School: Brentwood Park Primary School
Reviewer: Rishika
Genres: Adventure stories, Magic
Luna rides a battered old broom that keeps crashing itself into the school pond. She has a witch’s hat and wand and sometimes she’s quite good at magic, but she isn’t completely sure that she’s a real witch. She doesn’t have a familiar for one thing, and she doesn’t know where she came from—only that she was found by three witches who she now calls her aunts. When she swaps her moonstone ring for an…
The best witch in Paris is an extraordinary book about a young witch named Luna. In this book we learn about Luna’s many adventures as she lives with her aunts. I think this book has a particularly good description of words and setting as I can clearly understand what is happening as well as picture the events in the text. The only thing I wish Lauren Crozier could have done was follow a storyline a bit better, such as the narrative arch. Other than that, I very much enjoyed this book, and I recommend this to anyone who is interested in magic and witchcraft.
