Serial Garden

The Complete Armitage Family Stories

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Joan Aiken: Serial Garden (2008, Small Beer Press)

320 pages

English language

Published Nov. 9, 2008 by Small Beer Press.

ISBN:
978-1-931520-98-0
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4 stars (1 review)

Follows the adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Armitage and their children , Harriet, Mark, and little Milo, as they try to find innovative ways to cope with a variety of extraordinary events including stray unicorns in the garden, lessons in magic that go awry, and eviction from their house to make way for a young magicians' seminary.

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4 stars

As another reviewer said a whole book of these is a bit much at once, but they're good rollicking stories about an otherwise dull pleasant English village where the Armitage family matter-of-factly deal with witches, ghosts, baby griffins that need raising, the demands of pet unicorns, and so on. They're in that unthreatening sweet spot where you have only the tiniest worry the magical problem won't get solved, and there will be something nice for tea.

Subjects

  • Children's fiction
  • Short stories
  • Family, fiction
  • Fantasy fiction
  • Adventure and adventurers, fiction