Emma Dee and the Trouble with Magic

Author: Rosemary May Davison

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The year is 1960, a time before computers when television is a strange new invention. It is school holidays, it is pouring with rain and nine-year-old Emma is bored.

Then something exciting happens. In her toy cupboard, Emma finds an old wand she once made at school. Pretending to be a wizard casting spells, she discovers that the wand really works! It turns her cat, Penny, into a girl. Now Penny says she knows all about magic. Her mum knew a cat who knew a witch's cat, you see. She thinks being a girl will be fun, but she is still a cat inside and only remembers spells that would be useful to cats.

Emma learns that being able to do magic with Penny's help can be a lot of trouble, especially when Penny sometimes behaves more like a cat than a human. Their unfriendly neighbour, Mr Blight, who hates cats, is accidentally turned into a zebra that runs off down the street.

Emma and Penny go through one adventure after another, some dangerous, some funny, as they try to find him and make him human again. This tests Emma's resilience as well as the friendship she has with best friend, Lizzie.

Despite all the challenges she faces, Emma always gets home safely. Mr Blight is made human again, Penny is turned back into a cat and Emma's friendship with Lizzie becomes even stronger.

About the Author

Rosemary grew up the fifth in a family of six children in the 1950s and '60s. Her family lived in Glenroy, an outer northern suburb of Melbourne, Australia, where historical old homes were scattered amongst new housing developments full of young families and war refugees. She studied children's literature in a post-graduate librarianship course and worked as a children's librarian for many years, usually in public libraries. As a child she loved reading books with a bit of magic in them, like her mother's battered old copy of Coppertop by Australian author Harold Gaze, or the E. Nesbit fantasies her father would bring home from the state library in the city. She has never lost that love and, after attending classes on writing for children run by children's author Rachel Flynn, she now enjoys creating her own magical stories.