Saturday, August 29, 2009

Wild Magic by: Cat Weatherill


The night was full of fluttering wings and sharpening teeth, wagging tails and running feet. The children of Hamelin flew and crawled and wriggled and swam and burrowed and leaped and climbed and ran. Shiny otters. Black-masked badgers. Tumbling squirrels. Scattering rabbits. From a stag to a spider, a mouse to a moth-one by one they were all transformed, and still the Piper played on.
Only when the last creature disappeared did he take the pipe from his lips. Marianna the fox watched him from the shadows. She saw a strange expression on his face: a terrible blend of anger and bitter despair. Then his head fell forward and his shoulders slumped. Surely he wasn't crying?
Marianna continued to watch. Suddenly the Piper straightened himself. He raised his head and Marianna saw there were no tears. His eyes were flashing with excitment at the thought he had clearly just had.
"The other boy!" he cried jubilantly. "Back in the caves! The mayor's son! He's the One!"
And with that the Piper bounded down the mound and disappeared into the night.

pg. 34-35
Wild Magic

Wild Magic is a great book filled with action and fantasy. I loved it and all of it's characters. The whole idea of another world and a boy trying to break this curse that was put upon him just simply fasinates me. The story focuses on the small town of Hamelin, it's children, and it's mysterious Ratcatcher. The town of Hamelin has a bit of a rat problem to the point that they are literally everywhere you step and when a Ratcatcher shows up with his exotic colorful clothes and beautiful pipe, the people of Hamelin are a bit cautious. That all changes though when he starts to play his pipe and leads the rats to their death into the river. Everyone treated him as their hero until he starts to play that pipe again, only this time he has the childrem of Hamelin under his spell. He leads them to the hill outside of town and and opens a magical door to a brand new world. "Piper" is what Marianna, a girl of Hamelin, calls him and the name fits him well. Marianna has the feeling that the Piper is looking for somthing or someone perhaps, but she dosn't know who or what. After the Piper uses deep magic to transform the children of Hamelin into creatures of the forest, Marianna finds out the Piper's dark secret and who he is really after.

I found Wild Magic to be a very exciting and interesting story. I literally could not put it down, I always wanted to know what happened next. The characters were amazing, expecially Jakob, Marianna's crippled little brother. Since he could not keep up with the rest of the children when the Piper led them into the hill he was left behind. He has such a great sense of humor and is very brave no matter what the other people told him. This book was pure fantasy and I loved every word of it! I recommened this book to 10+, its very fun and imaginitive for young kids, but exciting and interesting enough for teens and adults!

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