Stuart Heritage

Nicola Slater

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Giggle all the way to bedtime with Jonathan's bonkers, back-firing magic show! 
 
Fans of Supertato and Grumpycorn will love this super silly story about a one-trick pony whose one trick goes WRONG! 
 
Each wave of Jonathan's magic wand just makes things worse. It's Abraca-CHAOS! 
 
Is there anyone who can save the day? 
 
Join Jonathan, his long-suffering best friend Sarah, a very unwilling frog assistant and a cast of other crazy animals in this light-hearted picture book from Guardian columnist Stuart Heritage, illustrated by the brilliant Nicola Slater. 
 
A very funny book to encourage reading for pleasure.

Stuart Heritage (Author) 
 Stuart Heritage is a well-known Guardian columnist, who writes on a variety of subjects but often about family and parenting. His weekly column about his young son 'Man With a Pram' ran in the paper's Family section between 2015-16, and he has also written for Vanity fair, Elle, Cosmopolitan, NME, and the Radio Times. 
 
Nicola Slater (Illustrator) 
 Nicola Slater is a children's book illustrator and popcorn aficionado. She was born in the windy north of England and later moved to Buckinghamshire, where she went to school. Nicola lives with her family in Cheshire, England, close to the local cinema, which she visits very often.

Jonathan the Magic Pony is a brilliant magician. With one wave of his magic wand he can make anything disappear. Boomf! And because he's such a brilliant magician, with one more wave he can make things come back too. It's foolproof. Failsafe. Always works. 
 
Or does it? 
 
When Jonathan magics away Sarah's bear... it doesn't come back! And with each, increasingly desperate, wave of his wand, Jonathan sets off an anarchic chain of events that builds to a swirl of hilarious chaos. 
 
There are sharks chasing ducks, baboons with giant wooden spoons, chimpanzees covered in fleas... but where is Sarah's bear? Will it ever come back? 
 
Is Jonathan even a real magician?! Find out in this silly, playful and very, very funny picture book, perfect for fans of Supertato and Grumpycorn. 
 
Jonathan's tricks may be rubbish but this book is definitely magic!

Jonathan the Magic Pony

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