Billy Wizard
Chris Priestley
The first day at a new school is often tricky, and if the only person who befriends you claims to be a wizard you simply have to make the best of it! Joe is pretty certain that Billy has, as the teacher says, just got an over-active imagination but when he witnesses some pretty odd events at playtime, he’s not quite so sure…
This is a really engaging book for newly confident readers, which perfectly captures the way young children speak and behave, in the classroom, the playground and at home. It’s a refreshing new take both on bullying and on magic.
Reviews
I liked it when his mum gave him a smiley face on the banana skin. I also liked that he made friends at the end
Chief Zizou Bluebird 15.08.2025
I read this on my second day back to school and could empathise with Joe.
Earl Crocodile Chipperfield 06.09.2024
This was a fiction book. I liked this book as it was about a boy starting school, but he was actually a wizard. Nobody believed Joe. I really enjoyed the book and I kept asking my mum questions about it.
General Ice-T Spaceship 27.08.2023
It is interesting and it has lots of detail.
Anonymous 01.08.2014
