{"id":7226,"date":"2023-02-14T07:18:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T07:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=7226"},"modified":"2023-02-14T07:18:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T07:18:58","slug":"literary-corner-the-magician-who-didnt-go-to-hogwarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=7226","title":{"rendered":"Literary corner -The magician who didn\u2019t go to Hogwarts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Declaration of interest: An ex-colleague has written to the editor about her new book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The editor is delighted to oblige with a mention. Any literary agents reading this (Mark!!!) please get in touch, as she\u2019s looking for a new publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Magician and the Basket of coloured balls\u201d by \u201cGranny\u201d is a children\u2019s (Age 3-6) book, penned in lockdown by a talented writer and illustrator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It tells the story of a wizard and his son, who live in a faraway land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wizard had taught the boy magic in the form of wizard words but over the years the boy has become lonely as he has no friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wizard decides it is time to become a real magician in the big wide world, so he gives him two special gifts. . .&nbsp; Now read on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(Couldn\u2019t afford the fees at Hogwarts then ?-ED)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Magician-Basket-Coloured-Balls\/dp\/1398464201\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=29OYMZMJAEZVD&amp;keywords=the+magician+and+the+basket+of+balls&amp;qid=1676359008&amp;sprefix=the+magician+and+the+baskey+of+balls%2Caps%2C105&amp;sr=8-1\">Amazon in book and Kindle format<\/a>. It has a 5-star review A great birthday or Easter gift for your grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon wp-block-embed-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Magician and the Basket of Coloured Balls\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"840\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.co.uk\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_GsPUremZWYdg8t&#038;asin=1398464201&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/510i-xjA-sL._SX384_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/510i-xjA-sL._SX384_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Declaration of interest: An ex-colleague has written to the editor about her new book. The editor is delighted to oblige with a mention. Any literary agents reading this (Mark!!!) please get in touch, as she\u2019s looking for a new publisher. \u201cThe Magician and the Basket of coloured balls\u201d by \u201cGranny\u201d is a children\u2019s (Age 3-6) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=7226\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Literary corner -The magician who didn\u2019t go to Hogwarts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-1Sy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7228,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226\/revisions\/7228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}