Magic, demons and the 7 Deadly Sins by Griselda Heppel
In my wildest dreams I never thought I'd get a Double First. (I'd happily settle for a Single First but that's not going to happen either.) So I'm enjoying the pleasing double ring in the fact that today, First November, I'm posting my First Ever blog for Authors Electric. A Faustian tale for Halloween It comes the day after a somewhat strenuous school visit, in which my aim was to persuade 40 Halloween-fixated Years 7 and 8 that stories of pacts with demons, crystal balls, charms, spells and alchemy, all dating back hundreds of years, are at least as exciting as pointy hats, plastic orange pumpkins and wriggly worms. I'm pretty sure I succeeded. Mostly. More exciting than a pumpkin Even more important - and this is why I love school visits - is the chance to enthuse children with the sheer magic of books themselves. Some will be keen readers already. Others, not yet, but give them a glimpse into other worlds and you never know when they m...