A Wizard in Rhyme #05 - My Son, the Wizard

✍ Scribed by Stasheff, Christopher

• Book ID: 107172500
• Publisher: Del Rey
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 250 KB
• Series: Wizard in Rhyme 5
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

From Library Journal

Stasheff (The Secular Wizard, Ballantine, 1995) continues the adventures of the wizard Sir Matthew (Matt Mantrell), a doctoral student transported via an ancient poetic chant to the Middle Ages country of Merovence. Matt moves his parents from their decaying New Jersey neighborhood to Merovence where, with magical rhymes, they help him and his wife, Queen Alisande, fight off invading Moors and genies. Stasheff creates wonderful portraits of educated people, unappreciated at home but invaluable elsewhere. While there are scattered references to acclimate readers new to the series, a full understanding of the plot is best gained from reading the earlier books. For libraries with the series.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Publisher

I appreciate the Stasheff approach to family values. I've certainly read a lot of books where the hero is conveniently orphaned, or his folks just didn't understand him, or they can't appreciate the greatness that burns within his manly breast. But Stasheff gives us a hero who's spent a couple of years battling evil and now things are good and he slaps his hand up against his forehead and says, "Gosh, wonder how the folks are doing?" It's refreshing.

--Veronica Chapman, Senior Editor