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Title | Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures
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Author | Jackson Pearce & Maggie Stiefvater
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Cover Art | Maggie Stiefvater
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Publisher | Scholastic Press - 2015
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First Printing | Scholastic Press - 2015
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Title | Pip Bartlett's Guide to Unicorn Training
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Author | Jackson Pearce & Maggie Stiefvater
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Cover Art | Maggie Stiefvater
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Publisher | Scholastic Press - 2017
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First Printing | Scholastic Press - 2017
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Title | Pip Bartlett's Guide to Sea Monsters
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Author | Jackson Pearce & Maggie Stiefvater
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Category | Middle Grade
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Warnings | None
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Main Characters | Pip Bartlett, Tomas
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Main Elements | Unicorns
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 Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures
From bestselling authors Maggie Stiefvater and Jackson Pearce comes an exciting new series full of magical creatures, whimsical adventures, and quirky illustrations.
Pip is a girl who can talk to magical creatures. Her aunt is a vet for magical creatures. And her new friend Tomas is allergic to most magical creatures. When things go amok—and they often go amok—Pip consults Jeffrey Higgleston’s Guide to Magical Creatures, a reference work that Pip finds herself constantly amending. Because dealing with magical creatures like unicorns, griffins, and fuzzles doesn’t just require book knowledge—it requires hands-on experience and thinking on your feet. For example, when fuzzles (which have an awful habit of bursting into flame when they’re agitated) invade your town, it’s not enough to know what the fuzzles are—Pip and Tomas also must trace the fuzzles’ agitation to its source, and in doing so, save the whole town.
Pip Bartlett's Guide to Unicorn Training
Now that the mystery of the exploding Fuzzles has been solved, it's up to Pip and Tomas to save their town from another magical troublemaker . . . the Unicorn.
This series is fun, a lot of wonky magical creatures that only Pip can talk to (and no one believes her that she can do it!). We find out that unicorns are incredibly vain, as well as incredibly cowardly. We find out that griffins can be grumpy, but the small silky kind like pineapples. There are Fuzzles, and Grimms, and Bitterflunks (which bounce!). I had a lot of fun with Pip and Tomas as they tried to figure out how to deal with Fuzzles (which burst into flame whenever they are afraid, and which like to nest in people's underwear drawers) without having to resort to exterminating them. There are adorable illustrations scattered throughout the book, and we have pages from Pip's Guide to Magical Creatures which she fills in as she finds omissions or mistakes (after all the original author couldn't speak to the creatures so he could only guess why they behaved they way they did). Tomas on the other hand is allergic to pretty much everything, and magical allergies aren't just a sniffly nose, you may hiccup rainbow bubbles or even float! The story is crazy, silly, but also a lot of fun with a lot of heart, and I enjoyed it so much I read the first book in just two days. Sure it isn't long or hard to read, but I also didn't want to put it down, I wanted to see what the next weird creature would be (like a HobGrackle which sweats a corrosive purple goo when it's stressed). Why people keep these creatures, including unicorns, as pets I'll never know, they seem like more problems than they are worth, but then, hey, who hasn't dreamed of riding a unicorn (even though it spook so easily you have to tell it to gallop with it's eyes closed otherwise it will freak out at every bush or stick along the way).
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