2_Il Torneo Del Re Del Mondo
Pierdomenico Baccalario

The wizard errant. The Tournament for the King of the World – vol. 1

Adventure

Magic exists. It is top secret, yet right before our eyes. You just need the courage to see it.

Magic is hidden among us, with wizards disguised in unsuspecting forms. Every four years, eighteen magic schools compete to crown the King of the World. The Roving Wizards, without a school or master, are talented, but an ancient prophecy warns: if one of them becomes King, a catastrophe will strike the magical world.

In the first book (The Tournament for the King of the World), the eighteen schools prepare for the tournament to choose the King of the World. World. An ancient prophecy says that if a Wizard Errant becomes King, a catastrophe will fall on the world of magic… So, the Errant are hunted down and killed in every corner of the world. In escaping, young Calaba meets Floyd, an apparently normal boy who has an innate ability to learn spells… They team up and decide to win the tournament at any cost.

  • Each book offers an intense adventure filled with twists, discoveries, victories, and defeats.
  • A new, fantastical world just a step away from our own: a unique journey to discover what makes each of us special.
Publisher: Battello a Vapore
Target: 10+
Year: 2019
Author
Pierdomenico Baccalario

Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica, and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.

 

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