MERLIN: The Book of Magic Reviews
Guides to long-running series have two important jobs. They should remind fans of all the things they particularly love about the books, and they should whet the appetites of newcomers, thus creating more fans. Barron’s guide to his 12-book saga about Merlin succeeds in both objectives. The tone is breezy and cheerful, a bit like having a friend chat with you about his favorite books. Information about characters, creatures, places, and things is included. Buy where the series is popular.
–School Library Journal
The magic in nature
Amid the partisan bickering, short-sighted opportunism, and misinformation campaigns surrounding our changing environment, it's easy to despair. It's also easy to hope if you use a guidebook like Merlin: The Book of Magic by T. A. Barron, an author whose hope for the natural world has never slackened.
The book is a companion guide to Barron's Merlin Saga, 11 books that trace how the infamous wizard grew from a young boy, washed ashore in Wales with no memory, into the sage of King Arthur's court.
The Book of Magic is playful, brimming with secrets and backstories about Barron's magical worlds, Fincayra and Avalon. The reader cannot help but walk away with a deeper sense of wonder for a different, equally magical world: Earth.
–Earthjustice Magazine
In this encyclopedic companion volume, purportedly Merlin's journal, Barron brings together a great deal of information and lore drawn from his Merlin series and offers short summaries of "Strange Characters," "Wondrous Places," and "Magical Terms," arranged under the headings of Fincayra, Avalon, Otherworld, and Earth. A time line and an index make the contents accessible. Besides the attractive black-and-white maps and small illustrations with the appearance of woodcuts, dramatic full-color illustrations appear at intervals throughout. Primarily of interest to dedicated fans, this will also answer questions for readers with gaps in their memory or knowledge of Barron's richly imagined Merlin Saga.
–Booklist
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