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In addition, the children fight against the Magician's evil assistant, Matthew Morden, whose quest for power leads him to disturb the magical and ecological balance within Golden Valley.īook 1 The Steps up the Chimney (1990) The storylines of the respective books incorporate various ecological and animal rights issues, such as badger baiting, fox hunting and industrial development.
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During these holidays, the children's parents are carrying out humanitarian work in the Third World, so the children stay with their uncle Jack and his partner Phoebe. Effectively, each book reflects a season: The Steps up The Chimney takes place during the winter and over the Christmas holiday The Door in the Tree takes place in spring, during the Easter holiday The Tunnel behind the Waterfall takes place during the long summer holiday The Bridge in the Clouds takes place during the shorter autumn half-term. The events of the four books take place roughly over ten months with the events of each book occurring during a traditional British school holiday period. The books follow the children as they discover the secrets of Golden House and the Magician who once lived there. The house is not give a specific location except close to Wales. They spend their holidays at Golden House, a large, 16th Century house in the British countryside. The four books centre on young siblings William, Mary and Alice Constant.
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Authors like Elizabeth Goudge, noted for The Little White Horse, and Alan Garner, who is perhaps best known for The Owl Service and Elidor, and Susan Cooper, famous for The Dark Is Rising sequence of books, who allude more specifically to British myth and legend in their writings. In addition, though there is no specific mention of Welsh myths and legends, the strong part nature plays in the stories and the settings bring to mind other British children's authors. The books were published in the early 1990s, and named as follows:Īlthough in a rural setting, this series' focus on subjects such as industrial development and the combining of present-day and past settings in the plotline gives it a feeling tending more towards urban fantasy than simply contemporary fantasy. The series featured Jennifer Saunders and Stephen Fry voicing some of the animal characters. Two mini-series were produced in 1999 for British television, which were directed by Paul Lynch. The Magician's House is a quartet of children's fantasy books by William Corlett.