It’s probably true to say that Harriet Muncaster has made one of the greatest contributions towards helping children over that hurdle to become confident and more importantly, enthusiastic readers of children’s literature.
Below are new titles by the author/illustrator – thanks to Oxford Children’s Books for sending them for review

Isadora Moon & Friends Story Collection
Harriet Muncaster

Herein are three new stories, the first featuring half fairy, half vampire Isadora Moon, the second, her cousin Mirabelle whose mum is a witch and her dad a fairy, and the third Emerald, a princess who makes her own rules and lives in Scallop City.
In the first story Isadora is super-excited as she’s going to the annual Vampire Festival for the very first time and has a new velvet party dress with matching cape and pointy boots. Pink Rabbit too has a new cape. Her Mum is also clad in black as she, not Isadora’s Dad is going to take her (and baby sister Honeyblossom) to the festival because Dad is poorly. Isadora is determined to win him a bat ornament, which she does but then discovers that Pink Rabbit is missing. Will she manage to find him in the crowd and if so, then what? …
Mirabelle and the Bitten Catastrophe begins in a potions lesson and Mirabelle hopes to magic up a bitten (bat-kitten) using the complicated instructions in the spell book she has to share with her friend Carlotta. The trouble is that Mirabelle is an impulsive character and is so eager to work on the spell that there’s soon a classroom full not of little witches and their teacher, but of bittens. Can Mirabelle and Carlotta between them put things right?
Princess Emerald is contemplating what if anything she should perform at the party to celebrate a decade of her stepdad King Auster’s ruling of Scallop City. A song perhaps, or maybe she could make music on some drums; or possibly a combination of both … Most importantly, will she make Auster happy?
With an abundance of friendship, humour and adventure this is a perfect present for fans of Isadora.

Mirabelle and the Potions Fair
Harriet Muncaster

It’s almost time for the annual Potions Fair at the convention centre and for the very first time Mirabelle’s mum has agreed to take her too. Her Mum, a witch is eager to meet her hero, a famous witch and author and Mirabelle, who has promised to be good, is desperate to buy a rare magic coin – a bitten coin. This kind has bat-shaped wings and anything it’s pointed at rises up and floats in the air.
Author Esmerelda Eggleheart is a flamboyant character and her demonstration is astonishing. Afterwards though, it’s Mirabelle’s mum, rather than her daughter who causes considerable chaos as the two queue to pay for the items they want to buy. Can little witch-fairy Mirabelle come to the rescue and restore some calm? Young readers will certainly have their fingers crossed for her.

Isadora Moon Mermaid Sleepover
written by Helen Mortimer

Not by Harriet Muncaster, this is a specially written Early Reader with full colour, comic style illustrations telling what happens when Isadora goes for a mermaid sleepover at her friend mermaid Delphina’s underwater palace. Delphina is upset because her Sea King dad is busy and unable to join them at their meal and in their games. Can Isadora, helped by another friend Adelina, make the experience a magical one nonetheless?