![]() ![]() The inside of her house was like a bright bowl. It was followed by Emlyn’s Moon (1987) and The Chestnut Soldier (1989). It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and also the Tir na n-Og Award from the Welsh Books Council, recognising the year’s best English-language children’s book with an authentic Welsh background. Book one, The Snow Spider, was published in 1986. The series is officially named The Magician’s Trilogy, but seems better known (and has recently been published in omnibus form) using just the name of the first book. Jenny Nimmo has lived in Wales for over forty years and has written many books for children since The Snow Spider was published, but it was that original book in this trilogy which brought her name to wider audiences. I’ve wanted to read the remaining books in the series for some while they were readily available on my Kindle and a well-written children’s book involving Welsh magic seemed an excellent place to start. Although I came to it as an adult, it left a haunting and hard-hitting impression of loss and loneliness. I opened my reading for the Welsh readathon, hosted by Paula at Book Jotter, with a trio of children’s books, the first of which I knew well. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Read as part of Dewithon 19 and for The Classics Club.) ![]()
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