The Dragon Circle, by Stephen Krensky

[rachelmanija]

The house was in an uproar. A very angry Jennifer Wynd was chasing her younger brother Perry around the living room. She was terribly quick, but then so was Perry, prompted by the little balls of fire Jennifer was throwing at his heels.

Magic runs in the Wynd family, but Professor Wynd and his five kids live quietly - well, mostly quietly - in a small town in Massachusetts. Nine-year-old Perry's biggest problem is that he's been cast as King Arthur in the school play, while his nemesis Nancy is playing Guinevere. Until the kids' illusions start going wrong, some tiny porcelain gargoyles attack, and a bunch of dragons invade the town. Wynds to the rescue!

A short, delightful children's fantasy which I fondly recalled from childhood. It's now on Kindle and is exactly as charming as I remembered. Also, it cracks me up that of the two Stephen Krensky books I've read, both involve a boy desperate to get out of the school play. As I also once desperately tried to get out a school play, I sympathize.

THE DRAGON CIRCLE: 1 The Wynd Family Chronicles

Comments

[queenbookwench]

Oooh! I love these and own a couple in paperback--I'm delighted to hear that they're in e-book now!

[teenybuffalo]

I remember loving this series when I was a kid! It went surprisingly hard for a series aimed at children. With the benefit of hindsight, one of the plots was probably ripped off from Halloween III: Season of the Witch and another from Roald Dahl's The Witches, but I liked the Wynd family books better than I would have liked those at the time.