Stan Swanson - Author
HELIUM
BOOKS
The Misadventures of Hobart Hucklebuck ​
Book One : Magic & Mayhem
By Stan Swanson​
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Part of The Hobart Hucklebuck book series
Category: Children's Middle Grade Fantasy
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Publisher : Helium Books (August 11, 2019)
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Language : English
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Paperback : 232 pages
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ISBN-10 : 0996283447
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ISBN-13 : 978-0996283441
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Great Gobs of Gollyglobber!​​
Hobart Hucklebuck blinked twice, then rubbed his eyes.
He closed his wide-open mouth just in time to avoid drooling in his freshly cooked bowl of muckenslush mush.
Still, the slice of bread had refused to climb into the toaster!
Hobart tipped his chair back, eyes fixed on the kitchen counter in disbelief. His toes curled downward against the floor causing the chair to tilt dangerously on its rear legs. He was more confused than a three-headed troll trying to button its shirt.
Strange things were common in Pennywhistle, but this was a different kind of strange. It was simply something that should not be possible. He blinked again, as if to clear his vision, and studied the slice of bread.
It hadn't budged.
ALSO AVAILABLE:
BOOK TWO
BOOK THREE
ALL REVIEWS ARE FROM AMAZON
"Move over Harry Potter, Hobart Hucklebuck is the new kid in the world of magic. This is the perfect book to get a tween to start reading. The world that Mr. Swanson has created is fun and creative, even down to the phrases the kids use such as something being “thermal” meaning it’s cool. I’ve read other books by this author and enjoyed them as much as I loved this one. Mr. Swanson’s ability to invent the characters’ names alone shows how invested he becomes in this world as he writes and it’s that reason that makes the reader want to become invested too."
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"A few pages in to this book I suspected it was just going to be a precious extended variation on Harry Potter's Diagon Alley, with lots of magic shops, enchantments, twee characters, cutesy names and too-clever magic spells. Well, please just excuse me for being a sourpuss, because this book pulls itself together in short order and ends up being a rousing delight. So, exciting, fun, funny, well written, touching, and very thoughtfully and carefully crafted - so, so much more than expected and very satisfying."
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"What a fun bunch of characters in this book. All of them were well written and developed. My boys loved Hobart and said he was 'brave' and 'awesome' and they found it funny that he was so afraid of cats. They loved the specter that worked in Hobarts' Grandfathers shop and they also loved the different shop names. My 4 yr old asked would our bread butter itself if he asked and when I said no he said why not!!!"
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