Myths and Magic Blog Tour Stop

Today, I’m having the honour to share the words and talents of one of my favourite bloggers and children’s authors, Esther Chilton. She is the host for the weekly writing prompt as well as many other blogging prompts. The weekly writing prompt is a lot of fun and very easy. I’ve written Amazon reviews for two of her books, The Secret Dragon, and this one Myths and Magic. You can read more here and here. Now, I give you Esther Chilton aka Esther Moonstomp (her very cool pen name).

The front cover features the title and author name, and a picture of a girl reading a magic book. There’s a king and queen in the background.
Front cover of Myths and Magic.

Blog Tour Stop for Myths and Magic

Thomas has very kindly allowed me to take over his blog for a short period today as part of the blog tour for my second children’s book, Myths and Magic,written for 5-7 year olds. A huge thank you to Thomas for his support. I really appreciate it.

I’ve been sharing different extracts from the book on my tour, but as Thomas often shows wonderful pictures and diagrams on his blog, I thought I’d share a few of the inside black and white illustrations. I hope you like them.

A bookcase with lots of books and there is a toy rabbit and a ball
Saffy’s bookcase
A big ogre with a big mouth and sharp teeth roaring and looking scary
An evil ogre
A pixie fairy sitting on a mushroom
Cute pixie
Baby dragons dancing as they are lifted up
Baby dragons

The Blurb:

Saffy has solved the first clue in her quest to save the magical world of Mandoreum from danger. Now it’s time to find the second. 

She isn’t alone. Her new friend, Lily, a dragon from Mandoreum, wants to help. Together they take a trip and uncover special stories and unexpected surprises.

But Saffy soon learns that first appearances are not always what they seem. And plotting in the background is a witch who will do everything she can to stop them…

Author bio:

Esther has been a freelance writer for over twenty-five years, regularly writing articles and short stories for magazines and newspapers such as Writers’ Forum, Writing Magazine, The Guardian, Best of British, The Cat, This England, Yours and The People’s Friend.  

Winner of several competitions, including those run by Writing Magazine and The Global Short Story Contest, she has also had the privilege of judging writing competitions and relished being given the role of head judge of the Writers’ Forum monthly short story competition.

Esther loves writing but equally enjoys helping others, which she achieves in her role as a tutor for The Writers Bureau. Always on the lookout for a new challenge, she is taking the distance learning college over at the end of July.

She has had two how-to books on writing published, with a third due out later this year, as well as two collections of short stories. Her second children’s book is coming out in May, where she writes under the name of Esther Moonstomp.

Blogs: https://estherchilton.co.uk

Website : https://esthermoonstomp.co.uk

Buying links:

Amazon UK:

UK: Paperback: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Myths-Magic-Saffys-Secret-Quest/dp/1806342103

E-book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GX6T5C6R

Amazon US

Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Myths-Magic-Esther-Moonstomp/dp/1806342103

E-book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX6T5C6R

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Author: thomasstigwikman

My name is Thomas Wikman. I am a software/robotics engineer with a background in physics. I am currently retired. I took early retirement. I am a dog lover, and especially a Leonberger lover, a home brewer, craft beer enthusiast, I’m learning French, and I am an avid reader. I live in Dallas, Texas, but I am originally from Sweden. I am married to Claudia, and we have three children. I have two blogs. The first feature the crazy adventures of our Leonberger Le Bronco von der Löwenhöhle as well as information on Leonbergers. The second blog, superfactful, feature information and facts I think are very interesting. With this blog I would like to create a list of facts that are accepted as true among the experts of the field and yet disputed amongst the public or highly surprising. These facts are special and in lieu of a better word I call them super-facts.

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  7. A wonderful post, Thomas, and many congratulations to Esther! Such lovely images, thank you for sharing… I have pre-ordered Myths and Magic and can’t wait to read it towards the end of May, start of June! 😊

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  12. This looks delightful! and “first appearances are not always what they seem,” is an important lesson. I still have several cherished picture books I read to my children.

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  13. Hi Thomas
    This looks like a lot of fun.
    We’ll have a look at this book. All of Esther Chilton’s books seem to be fun to read and to look at.
    The Fab Four of Cley
    🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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