The Magician's Boy

A boy is a magician's assistant and the boy puts on a puppet show after the magician's show. The boy wants to learn magic and doesn't understand why the magician won't show him any magic. The two must go to a very important party and the boy discovers one of his puppets, Saint George, is missing. The magician tells the boy he must find the puppet and the boy is thrown into the Land of Story to find Saint George. The boy wanders through stories and questions characters so he can find the dragon and Saint George. In the end, the boy discovers that he is Saint George and he carried the puppet show off in outstanding form and the magician will now teach him magic just as he wished.

The pictures are bright and colorful to add to the magical mood of the story. The pictures add to the text of the story. The pictures also help to establish the setting because this story has so many setting changes in the Land of Story.


Cooper, Susan, & Riglietti, Serena. (2005). The Magician. New York, NY: Margaret K. McElderry.