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Title Un monde magique
Author Katherine Quénot
Illustrated By ---
Publisher Hachette Jeunesse - 2014
First Printing Hachette Jeunesse - 2014
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Title L'énigme du Tromptusse
Author Katherine Quénot
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Publisher Hachette Jeunesse - 2014
First Printing Hachette Jeunesse - 2014
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Title Le défi du faune
Author Katherine Quénot
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Publisher Hachette Jeunesse - 2014
First Printing Hachette Jeunesse - 2014
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Title Le repaire de la sorcière
Author Katherine Quénot
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Publisher Hachette Jeunesse - 2015
First Printing Hachette Jeunesse - 2015
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Title Une grande nouvelle
Author Katherine Quénot
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Publisher Hachette Jeunesse - 2015
First Printing Hachette Jeunesse - 2015
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Title Mauvais présage
Author Katherine Quénot
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Publisher Hachette Jeunesse - 2015
First Printing Hachette Jeunesse - 2015
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Title Le chagrin de la licorne
Author Katherine Quénot
Illustrated By ---
Publisher Hachette Jeunesse - 2015
First Printing Hachette Jeunesse - 2015
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Title Le pique-nique
Author Katherine Quénot
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Publisher Hachette Jeunesse - 2016
First Printing Hachette Jeunesse - 2016
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Title Une amitié extraordinaire
Author Katherine Quénot
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Publisher Hachette Jeunesse - 2016
First Printing Hachette Jeunesse - 2016
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Title La licorne de Feu
Author Katherine Quénot
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Publisher Hachette Jeunesse - 2016
First Printing Hachette Jeunesse - 2016
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Title La lanterne magique
Author Katherine Quénot
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Publisher Hachette Jeunesse - 2016
First Printing Hachette Jeunesse - 2016
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Title Au revoir, Centopia!
Author Katherine Quénot
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Publisher Hachette Jeunesse - 2016
First Printing Hachette Jeunesse - 2016
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Title Un mysterieux visiteur
Author Katherine Quénot
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Publisher Hachette Jeunesse - 2017
First Printing Hachette Jeunesse - 2017
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Title Bienvenue à Centopia
Author ---
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Publisher ---
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Title Les licornes en danger
Author ---
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Publisher ---
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Title La destruction du Tromptusse
Author Katherine Quénot
Illustrated By ---
Publisher Hachette Jeunesse - 2016
First Printing Hachette Jeunesse - 2016
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Title La naissance d'Onchao
Author Katherine Quénot
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Publisher Hachette Jeunesse - 2016
First Printing Hachette Jeunesse - 2016
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Title L'attaque des Munculus
Author Katherine Quénot
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Publisher Hachette Jeunesse - 2016
First Printing Hachette Jeunesse - 2016
Category Children
Warnings None
Main Characters Mia, Yuko, Mo, Phuddle, Lyria, Onchao
Main Elements Fairies, unicorns
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Click to read the summaryL'énigme du tromptusse

Click to read the summaryLe défi du faune

Click to read the summaryLe repaire de la sorcière

Click to read the summaryUne grande nouvelle

Click to read the summaryMauvais présage

Click to read the summaryLe chagrin de la licorne

Click to read the summaryLe pique-nique

Click to read the summaryUne amitié extraordinaire

Click to read the summaryLa licorne de Feu

Click to read the summaryLa lanterne magique

Click to read the summaryAu revoir, Centopia!

Click to read the summaryUn mysterieux visiteur

Click to read the summaryBienvenue à Centopia

Click to read the summaryLes licornes on danger

Click to read the summaryLa destruction du Tromptusse

Click to read the summaryLa naissance d'Onchao

Click to read the summaryL'attaque des Munculus




I had low expectation of these books, I never like novelizations of TV shows or movies, but maybe because I've never seen the original they felt like normal kids books exept for the CG art which clearly were stills from the show. I also figured the unicorn content would be low, and while indeed the unicorns are merely victims for the most part, they are key to the story which is really between the elves, and the evil Munculus sorceresses that want to use those horns to keep their queen young (though I couldn't help but put an environmental spin on it which the books didn't pick up on...what did the queen expect to do when she wiped out the entire unicorn population, seeing as she seemed to need horns every few days? Something Asian medicine could think about when it comes to elephant tusks and rhinoceros horns...and apparently donkey skins, just heard that 76% of all donkeys in China have already been slaughtered for this new fad).

On the whole, a fairly standard kind of Nania-esque + Neverending Story mix, where a girl whose parents have disappeared left her a book about a world called Centopia. She finds she is able to enter that world whenever it needs saving, and then she has to return to her life at a boarding school being picked on by the cool girls. In one world she has friends, unicorns, and can fly (sorta), and in another she's alone, teased and bored. Can't blame her for wanting to spend more time in a world of magic, and seeing as no time at all passes in our world while she's in Centopia, wouldn't it be a dream for any child?

However, every trip to Centopia teaches her something new, makes her a little stronger, better able to handle herself in our world, and soon things even at the boarding school begins to change for her. I'll admit as I'm reading them nearly back-to-back they do get kind of repetitive. Get the signal, figure out the password, spend a few hours in Centopia battling the bad guys, back to the boarding school. But kids like the comfort of these kinds of patterns, and of course the books merely reflect the original show.

Oddly, as the series went along I began to wonder if I was missing books (but being numbered I could tell I had not). Mia figures out how to fly, they find the pieces of the Tromptusse oddly fast, perhaps the TV series was itself rushing to wrap up so was leaping a bit ahead of itself.

The books are also exactly 96 pages each, which means it doesn't take me very long to read, and are probably great as books for kids just learning to read.

By the way, I'd recommend not reading the last book, Un mysterieux visiteur, it starts a new storyline from season 2, but seems only the one book ever got published. So you get the whole new setup of a new villain and then you are left hanging, where if you stop with the second to last book it wraps up the first season nicely.




Posted: December 2019

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