WIZARD’S HALL Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman Harcourt Brace 1991 ISBN# 0-15-298132-2 Harcourt hardcover ISBN# 0-590-45811-6 Scholastic paperback ISBN# 0-15-298132-2 Harcourt paperback

Another book that started with a dream, this story predates the Harry Potter books by eight years. A young inept wizard who turns out to be in some ways the most powerful of them all, my hero is named Henry (not Harry) but renamed Thornmallow when he gets to the Wizard’s Hall. The Hall is a school, with teacher’s pictures that move about, and a wicked wizard who used to teach there. (Is this all beginning to sound familiar?) There is a horrible quilted beast and a variety of spells. Scholastic dropped their paperback edition just a year before they began publishing Harry Potter. Harcourt then reprinted Wizard’s Hall. There is an Audiobook, which I narrated. There is a Thai version.

Accolades:

The book was a 1992-93 Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Award nominee.

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Recording:

There is an audio recording of WIZARD’S HALL narrated by me, from Listening Library (ISBN# 0-8072-7568-9). An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award winner.

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