Magic Wanda and the Gardener and Magic Wanda and the Sculptor are interactive children’s books with accompanying DVDs that encourage children’s creativity! These hardback books are written by Renée Edwards, uniquely illustrated by Bob Gauld-Galliers of Thomas the Tank Engine fame, and the DVDs include features narrated by actress Fenella Fielding.

“Children will love reading the story in this beautifully illustrated picture book and listening to it read aloud on the DVD. Offering a wealth of creative activities and stimulating experiences, this is the first book in what promises to be a delightful series.” Rewarding Reading, Key Stages 1&2
Teaching and Learning Magazine.

Author Renée Edwards, has lived in Binsey, Oxford for a year, “These books and DVDs are a new way of presenting good old fashioned healthy fun for children at home, at nursery, primary school or with grandparents and other carers. They are designed to dip in and out of over time, inspiring planting, sand sculpture, simple activities, reading and listening. I am happy for this opportunity to offer the books at their most popular time of year and to help preserve St. Margaret’s Church. I appreciate our precious church as do my friends and family and I have made many a wish in the well!”

Lewis Carroll composed Alice in Wonderland after a picnic in the surrounding area; it was also a historic site of pilgrimage for St Frideswide, patron saint of Oxford. According to tradition, Frideswide felt compassion for Algar and while in Binsey, prayed to St. Margaret of Antioch and St. Catherine of Alexandria, who instructed her to hit the ground with her abbess’s staff. Once Frideswide did this, the ground gave way to reveal a well, whose water she used to cure Algar’s blindness - this well can be found today at the Church of St. Margaret in Binsey.

The Magic Wanda books including the DVD are available with this voucher for £11.99 each, including postage and packaging – for the chance to win a second book FREE please include the name Lewis Carroll, inspired by the well at St. Margaret’s Church, gave the well in Alice in Wonderland.

2000 books are available between now and the church fundraising Binsey Fete on 20th July 2008 (St. Margaret’s Day) £3.00 per book purchased with this voucher (for example) will go to St. Margaret’s Church, Binsey, so £6000 of the £30,000 required to repair the church can be raised before the fete and grant applications submissions later this year. The plan is to repair the church roof in 2008 to prevent further damage to the interior, and to complete the works next year.

The books are being sold at cost price plus the donation and postage, and you have 1p change from £12.00 to come and make a wish in the well!

To read more about the books and place an order please go to the dedicated link on www.MagicWandaBooks.com

2008 National Year of Reading!

Posted on June 5th, 2008 by Russell Dewhurst
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