Wizard and Wart in Trouble

Wizard and Wart #3

by Janice Lee Smith, Paul Meisel (Illustrator)

Wizard and Wart are back in action! Zounds the vulture has broken his usual silence to announce, "Trouble is coming!" and Wizard and his dog Wart are braced for the worst. With a big book of magic spells and a lot of sandwiches, they think they're ready for anything. But when Trouble finally arrives, even the unflappable Wizard and the ever-worried Wart are surprised! Paul Meisel's comic watercolors are the ideal match for Janice Lee Smith's third zany story of magical mayhem. Here comes Trouble! Wizard and his dog, Wart, are worried. Zounds the vulture tell them, "Trouble is coming!" and they can't imagine what it could be. But with Wizard's big book of spells, and lots of sandwiches for Wart, they're ready for anything-or so they think….

Genres: Childrens

47 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1998

About the author

She lives and plays in Colorado with her husband, Jim, and their dogs Rosie and Bailey.

Honors/Awards:
Bread Loaf Writer's Conference scholarship, 1981, and fellowship, 1982
Named among the Outstanding Young Women of America, 1981
Indiana Arts Commission/National Endowment for the Arts master arts fellowship grant, 1984, for The Show-and-Tell War, and for The Kid Next Door and Other Headaches: Stories about Adam Joshua
The Kid Next Door and Other Headaches was selected an International Reading Association Children's Choice, 1985
Addi Award, 1987, for advertising booklet

Reviews

[Cosette · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best I-can-read book I've ever read. I wish I didn't know how to read so I could discover how to read all over again with this ZANy book - whipped cream! And cold snaps! Ice zings! Awesome! I thought only Denys Cazet could make me laugh this much. I was wrong.

[Cheryl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Juvenile nonsense. Unexpectedly complete, as the chapters are not separate episodes but part of an arc. A GR reader compared the effect on her to that of the writing of Denys Cazet so now I have to consider adding more stories to my to-read lists!

[Dolly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a fun book for young children to start reading chapter books. The chapters are short and there are a lot of colorful pictures. The story is silly, but entertaining, and our girls loved it when they discovered who 'Trouble' is. We enjoyed reading this book together.

[Rosa Cline · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a fun 'play on words' book. many descriptive words throughout the book and a really fun twist at the end. They find out that even with spells they still can't get away from 'trouble' but in the end it's really not as bad as they imagined.

[Schmobes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good level 3. Kiddo enjoyed it.