From the renowned author, Jess Kidd comes her first children’s book, and what a fun, exciting children’s book it is.

Meet Alfie Blackstack. After his parents tragically die in separate strange and unusual incidents he is sent to live with his aunts in Little Snoddington. He barely knows his aunts, the only thing he can remember involves a dancing turkey and his mum calling them a pair of witches. He had presumed that she was just being nasty and not that they were actual witches.

Just after he arrives to stay with his aunts, the circus arrives in town, bringing with it Calypso and her little sister Nova who Alfie becomes friendly with. It isn’t easy though being the newcomer to town, having witches for aunts, and a new best friend who is adventurous and daring, whilst you are most definitely not. But Alfie must learn to be brave when Nova goes missing in a cloud of green smoke, surely magic must be involved and anything to do with magic is scary!!

Everyday Magic is a complete adventure. It is filled with joyous moments surrounded by what sounds like it is going to be a sad story, ‘orphan child’, ‘little kid goes missing’. But it is anything but sad, it is fun, energetic, and riveting.

Alfie is such an adorable child with his too-short shorts, too-big shoes, and bright orange jacket he wears all the time. With his parents being exceptionally adventurous you would have expected him to be too, but Alfie hates most things, fast things, high things, scary things, animals, etc. He’d much rather sit quietly and read a book.

The bringing together of Alfie and Calypso was pure genius as they are complete opposites and yet they work perfectly together. They hit it off from the moment they meet.

As well as Nova going missing, the pair are also trying to work out what the imp in a snowglobe (go with it) is trying to tell them. Though he does like to cause a lot of destruction too.

This is a wonderful book, entertaining from the first page to the last and I hope that Jess Kidd writes more children’s books as she has a real knack for it.