Deze auteur, oorspronkelijk antropologe, ontdekte haar passie voor kinderboeken rond haar tiende. Na jaren van academisch werk en veldonderzoek in Zuid-India dook ze in de wereld van kinderfantasie. Haar verhalen, vol humor en avontuur, zijn gericht op kinderen van 7-10 jaar, maar spreken ook volwassen lezers aan.
Join Jem and Dora, Simon and Cat again as they hunt for the sea amber - the final piece of deep amber - which they must locate before the evil Lord Ravenglass can find it. If it falls into the wrong hands, the owner could forge a powerful crown of amber, use it to rule and destroy the World Tree ...
Simon and Cat are stuck in the modern world, determined to find their way to the kingdom - but it soon becomes more dangerous than they could have imagined. Should they try and follow him to the mysterious Empire of Akkad, where there might be dragons . . . ?
A rift has opened . . . Worlds are colliding . . . Could mysterious substance deep amber be the source of all the chaos? It's down to modern-world siblings Cat and Simon to join forces with apprentice witch Dora and castle mischief- maker Jem to investigate.
"Max Pendragon is probably the worst squire in King Arthur's kingdom -- he'd much rather train to be a wizard instead. So when he accidentally invents a spell that turns people into frogs, it seems his wish might come true. But events take an unexpected turn when Max enters the Novices' Spell-Making Competition and find himself helping Merlin fight an evil sorceress. There's no way Max's unpredictable frogspell could be of any use. Or is there ...?"--Page 4 of cover
Ausgerechnet! Max hat sechs Wochen Zauberschule bei Morgana, der fiesesten Hexe des ganzen Königreichs, gewonnen. Ob er die Zeit überleben wird, ohne in einen Tausendfüßler oder gar Schlimmeres verwandelt zu werden? Dann erhält Max den Auftrag seines Lebens: Der mächtige Zauberer Merlin bittet ihn, ein wachsames Auge auf Morgana zu werfen. Die Hexe führt offenbar Böses im Schilde. Wie gut, dass ihm seine Schwester Olivia, Hausratte Grimm und der tollpatschige Drache Adolphus bei diesem Abenteuer tatkräftig zur Seite stehen.