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Kjartan Poskitt and Philip Reeve
Pantsacadabra!
Scholastic (222 pages) 9781407104652
A whole book of 'magic' tricks involving pants has to be a hit - even if performance as such is not anticipated. A great deal of specific instruction is given in an easily accessible manner and with lots of simply organised diagrams and attractive drawings. The illustrator is one and the same as the award-winning writer - some people are horribly talented. Some of the pages are in graphic-comic layout and some are words alone. A joking introduction about a little known conjuror, The Great Gusset, leads in to forty sections with titles like 'A Flash in the Pants', 'The Knicker Nicker', 'The Bride of Pantenstein' and more. Let's hope there's a Poskitt/Reeve road-show, or even school visits. How about a volunteer, one of the teachers perhaps?

Kjartan Poskitt illustrated by Philip Reeve
Urgum and the Seat of Flames
Scholastic (294 pages) 9781407104331
Urgum the Axeman made his debut in a previous book. He is a savage: very big, very strong, very smelly and very, very proud of it. He has seven savage sons, a resourceful daughter and 'the wifiest wife' in Divina. The surroundings are filled with monsters and enemies and over and above it all are vultures hoping for something dead to feed on as combat is frequent. The book is a non-stop laugh egged on by the small drawings of Philip Reeve. There are a lot of odd creatures to contend with, a 'Savage of the Year' award, and much fun with painful underwear. Altogether this has every element to reach out to boys with 'read me' writ large. Extremely clever codswallop rules!