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Caspian’s UnBirthday (Invisible Magic Wand) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Donya Pedigo

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Caspian's UnbirthdayCaspian’s Unbirthday by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a fun children’s read about Caspian’s UnBirthday present, hot chocolate socks and the adventures they lead to. Caspian can’t seem to find anything good in getting brown socks as a gift until his grandpa shows him what the brown hot chocolate socks really can do.

This is a cute, imaginative story that has very colorful and appealing illustrations that help the reader travel through Caspian’s adventure along with him. This book has magic, adventure, and even shares knowledge in such a fun way that most won’t realize they are learning simultaneously. I truly enjoy and love this series by Lois Wickstrom about Caspian and his family. These are short stories that will spark most children’s imaginations while having a lesson hidden in them. The only thing I found remotely bothersome about this book is that grandpa lets Caspian skip school to go on an adventure because it’s his unbirthday. Do special days need to be celebrated? Yes, but it needs to be said how important school is as well. Definitely a series worth checking out though.

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Caspian’s UnBirthday (Invisible Magic Wand) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Cindy Rushin

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Caspian's UnbirthdayCaspian’s Unbirthday by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I enjoyed this new adventure with Caspian and his grandfather. This is a cute little story and I think many kids will enjoy it. This author has developed a fun world where Caspian and his grandfather have many adventures and this one was fun. I recommend this author and this story to anyone who has children that love to read and love adventures.

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Caspian’s UnBirthday (Invisible Magic Wand) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Roxsanne Lesieur.

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Caspian's UnbirthdayCaspian’s Unbirthday by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It is February 14th and it is Caspian’s Unbirthday and every year, his Grandpa gets him a mysterious gift and when Caspian wakes up, this year is no exception, he finds his Unbirthday box and sees a note within “Enjoy your hot chocolate socks” but when he just sees brown socks, Caspian is disappointed.

When he is asked about it, he answers “What is good about brown socks?” but his Grandpa has a smile on his face and so when he pours some hot chocolate on Caspian’s socks, he is unimpressed until he starts to float in the air! His Grandpa soon joins him in the air and passes Caspian a broom while grasping a mop, but where will they go on their adventure?

This is a fun filled children’s book with a good message and beautiful illustrations within which can be enjoyed by all ages with its upbeat story and wholesome content.

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Loretta’s Caterpillar (Loretta’s Insects) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Stephanie Robb

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Loretta's Caterpillar (Loretta's Insects #4)Loretta’s Caterpillar by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I think this was my favourite from this author. It takes all about the life cycle of butterflies and with beautiful drawings takes you on a journey with Loretta. I loved the facts at the end with the facts and science.

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Caspian’s UnBirthday (Invisible Magic Wand) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Amanda Gonzalez

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Caspian's UnbirthdayCaspian’s Unbirthday by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Caspian gets unusual gifts from his grandfather, of course, they’re never what they appear to be. I love the imagination the author has in creating these books! Something so innocuous as socks can be great fun with just a little imagination. The illustrations are straightforward and make the story easy to follow and visualize. Whimsical and fun, this story has magical elements that are sure to inspire young minds!

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Caspian’s UnBirthday (Invisible Magic Wand) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Angela Plate, February 2023

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Caspian's UnBirthday (Invisible Magic Wand)Caspian’s UnBirthday by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Like all of her other books, this one is filled with imagination. Although I’m not sure how hot chocolate socks make you fly, it’s a cute and fun read. We look forward to reading all of this author’s books

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Lucky Stars by Fantasia Yu – Review by Faith Jackson

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True Colors (Landry's True Colors #1)True Colors by Krysten Lindsay Hager
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I loved reading this as an adult and as a parent. My 7-year old son could definitely relate to Landry even though he’s just in 2nd grade. He learned a lot about his personality, being accepted (or not), FOMO, and what it’s like to be true to himself. As an adult raising my kids alone, it taught me how to point him in the right direction and away from frenemies. Great work to the author, Ms. Lindsay Hager!

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Caspian’s UnBirthday (Invisible Magic Wand) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Heather Hoke

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Caspian's UnbirthdayCaspian’s Unbirthday by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Caspian’s grandpa never disappoints with his crazy unbirthday presents. After Caspian opens his present, us readers can always anticipate a very amusing adventure for Caspian and Grandpa! This book definitely lived up to the fun expectation of an adventure as well. I giggled a few times while reading!

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Loretta’s Caterpillar (Loretta’s Insects) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Tonya Merritt

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Loretta's Caterpillar (Loretta's Insects #4)Loretta’s Caterpillar by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I enjoyed the story of Loretta’s Caterpillar. It shows the stages of a caterpillar’s life. The story told me many things I did not know about caterpillars and butterflies. This was a great book to help teach kids how caterpillars become butterflies.

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Caspian’s UnBirthday (Invisible Magic Wand) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Tara Johnson Barnes

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Caspian's UnbirthdayCaspian’s Unbirthday by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Every year on his Unbirthday Caspian receives a present from his Grandpa. When Caspian receives brown socks for his unbirthday present he is disappointed because brown socks is not what he wanted. When Grandpa tells him to put hot chocolate on his socks something unusual happens. Suddenly Caspian is flying through the air and so is Grandpa. Thanks to their magical hot chocolate socks they are able to go flying in the air on a series of adventures.

This is a cute book for kids about silly adventures between a boy and his Grandpa. It is beautifully illustrated which brings the story to life. I am sure that children of all ages will love the little adventure that Caspian and his Grandpa go on. A fun read!

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Caspian’s UnBirthday (Invisible Magic Wand) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Kerry Baker

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Caspian's UnBirthday (Invisible Magic Wand)Caspian’s UnBirthday by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

As usual with this author this is a fun and interactive book that the whole family has enjoyed reading. It was engaging and lively but still had a strong lesson running through it. The story appealed to both my children, despite their age difference. My eldest was thoroughly disappointed when her socks didn’t make her fly too.
Lois Wickstom is definitely a firm favourite in our house. All of her books are read multiple times and it is always exciting when we get a new one. We are already looking forward to the next one we get.

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Loretta’s Caterpillar (Loretta’s Insects) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Melissa Saxton

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Loretta's Caterpillar (Loretta's Insects #4)Loretta’s Caterpillar by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Yet again this author delivers with another fun experience with education hidden right in it.

This story follows the lifestyle of Monarch Butterflies from their tiny little egg eating shedding all of it! At the end you get even more tid Bits of information

Another great story my 4 year old loved for our nightly story routine before bed

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Loretta’s Caterpillar (Loretta’s Insects) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Jamie Truex

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Loretta's Caterpillar (Loretta's Insects #4)Loretta’s Caterpillar by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Another great read by Lois Wickstrom! These are all such good learning books for kids. My 4 year old granddaughter loves each one, especially this one. She was very interested in what was happening with the caterpillar. As always, we definitely recommend!

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Loretta’s Caterpillar (Loretta’s Insects) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Hannah Porter

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Loretta's Pet CaterpillarLoretta’s Pet Caterpillar by Lois J. Wickstrom
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I always enjoy reading Lois Wickstrom stories i like to put them up on the tv and read them to my son, nieces and nephews.it was a quick read and i love how it shows the different stages of the life cycle for the monarch caterpillar.being that its almost spring i’m excited to go outside to find out very own to watch and report/ learn about. Im definitely going to use that website to get those flowers so we can have lots of butterfly this season.

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Loretta’s Caterpillar (Loretta’s Insects Book #3) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Angela Hayes

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Loretta's Caterpillar (Loretta's Insects)Loretta’s Caterpillar by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

 

3.5 Stars

 

Loretta’s Caterpillar is the third book in the Loretta’s Insects series by Lois Wickstrom. It is another fun, fact-based, interesting, educational, and entertaining illustrated children’s storybook.
Loretta loves insects and this time she discovers and then cares for a butterfly egg, watching over and protecting it from harm as it moves through its cycle. We get to learn about butterfly lifecycles along the way, as well as facts about Monarch butterflies- how to tell males from females, their migration routes, their food source etc.
This is not just a cute story, it also encourages children to learn while they read. I read this story with my grandson, but as with the other books in this particular series, the illustrations aren’t quite as eye catching as some of Ms. Wickstrom’s other books and didn’t grab his attention like the others have done. The ‘new’ cover is great, but unfortunately the illustrations inside the book aren’t up to the same standard. Great little story though.
This series contains (so far):
-Ladybugs For Loretta (Book #1)
-Bee’s In Loretta’s Bonnet (Book #2)
-Loretta’s Caterpillar (Book #3)
-What Loretta’s Katydid Did (Book #4) —> releases in Sept (2023)
Happy reading!

 

 

Reviewed by @angelahayes

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Loretta’s Caterpillar (Loretta’s Insects) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Angela Renee Diaz

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Loretta's Caterpillar (Loretta's Insects)Loretta’s Caterpillar by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book explains the Metamorphosis of butterflies in an easy way to understand. Perfect for kids to comprehend. Short enough that there attention span doesn’t waver. A great book I recommend. Very educational for kids.

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Loretta’s Caterpillar (Loretta’s Insects) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Jenni Bishop

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Loretta's Caterpillar (Loretta's Insects #4)Loretta’s Caterpillar by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Loretta loves the outdoors and especially a garden and all it has to offer. In this book we see Loretta watching over an egg and seeing it grow and change through its circle of life to become a monarch butterfly.
I remember being a kid and Dad taking us out to catch the caterpillars and chrysalis. We would take them home and watch them through their change to a beautiful butterfly and then release them back into the wild. Now as an adult I have taken my grandkids to do the same.
It is a lovely story that will inspire kids to venture into their own gardens and find out what treasures they can find. The pictures are bright and colourful. Lois has also provided information on how to start your collection to nurture the process yourself.

Reviewed by @jennadb

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Loretta’s Caterpillar (Loretta’s Insects) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Julie Johnson

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Loretta's Caterpillar (Loretta's Insects #4)Loretta’s Caterpillar by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Loretta loves various types of bugs. This book focuses on monarch butterflies.

In May, Loretta sees a milkweed field full of monarch butterflies but shortly after seeing them, they disappear. This upsets Loretta, as she really enjoys looking at butterflies. She makes a trip to the milkweed field and sees lots of little “seeds” on the back of plants. She soon learns that these “seeds” are going to turn into caterpillars, which turn into butterflies. Loretta is able to watch the various stages in which a butterfly is formed.

I am a huge fan of Lois Wickstrom and her books!! This one is unique in that some of the words are different shaped to represent what they are saying. There is also a bit of information in the back of the book about monarch butterflies, milkweed plants, and where to obtain milkweed seeds. It also shows the differences in male and female monarchs. I learned a couple of things reading this book! This is a great book to read to anyone of any age and would be great in a homeschool, daycare, personal library, etc!

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Loretta’s Caterpillar (Loretta’s Insects) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Carrie Reed

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Loretta's Caterpillar (Loretta's Insects #4)Loretta’s Caterpillar by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I love that this book teaches kids about butterflies. Their lifecycle, how to tell the difference between a male and female and background on monarch butterflies. It is also interesting adults to learn as well, if they haven’t already. The art is lovely to look at and the different words on each page in a different font style really are eye catching The only thing that was kind of hard for me to grasp was the name Loretta chooses for the butterfly. I don’t think it is really kid friendly to try and read. Overall great story for children.

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Loretta’s Caterpillar (Loretta’s Insects) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Shelly Kittell

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Loretta's Caterpillar (Loretta's Insects #4)Loretta’s Caterpillar by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This has fast become my favorite kids science story book. Loretta has adventures learning about monarch butterflies this time. The author includes terrific tidbits about them in the back. These entertaining stories that I use with our homeschool and my kiddo loves them. The story is educational and fun. The pictures are colorful. The kids learn new words about the butterfly. Every child’s library should have this one.

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Loretta’s Caterpillar (Loretta’s Insects) by Lois Wickstrom

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Loretta finds a monarch caterpillar egg and protects it from a wasp, a bird, and a lizard as it eats milkweed, grows through metamorphosis, becomes a butterfly and finally flies away to continue its migration.

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Lois is a former high school chemistry teacher and former head science teacher at Science in the City Summer Camp in Philadelphia. She has also been an adjunct science teacher at University of South Florida. Since retiring, she continues to take science classes. Her class in Forensic Biology led to Little Red, The Detective, in which Red is studying fingerprint identification, so she can tell that “Grandma” isn’t who she says she is.

Lois has taken so many science classes that she believes science is the solution to almost every problem, including the dilemmas in fairy tales. She has invented what she calls Science Folktales. In each science-based tale, the protagonist achieves a better ending than the original because of learning scientific principles. She has turned some of these tales into plays.

She has also created a series of Mermaid Science stories, which make use of water science.

Lois is married to the love of her life. She has two children, four grandchildren and a dog.

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Caspian’s UnBirthday (Invisible Magic Wand) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Tori Mitton

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<a href=”https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75259634-caspian-s-unbirthday” style=”float: left; padding-right: 20px”><img border=”0″ alt=”Caspian’s UnBirthday (Invisible Magic Wand)” src=”https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1671845274l/75259634._SX98_.jpg” /></a><a href=”https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75259634-caspian-s-unbirthday”>Caspian’s UnBirthday</a> by <a href=”https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/331633.Lois_Wickstrom”>Lois Wickstrom</a><br/>
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Caspian’s grandpa always gets him something not suitable for a birthday present. He thinks he get ordinary brown socks. Grandpa pour hot coco on his socks. Caspian and his grandpa can now fly! This story was absolutely adorable and hilarious!
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Caspian’s UnBirthday (Invisible Magic Wand) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Stephanie Robb

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Caspian's UnBirthday (Invisible Magic Wand)Caspian’s UnBirthday by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I love the family relationships in this series and the diversity of characters and personalities. this is another gem from Lois.

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Caspian’s UnBirthday (Invisible Magic Wand) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Kelli Harper

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Caspian's UnbirthdayCaspian’s Unbirthday by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This author writes books that are full of lessons. However she also adds LOTS of imaginative fun as well. This story is no different. Caspian’s grandfather takes Caspian on this adventure with “hot chocolate socks”. Great illustrations full of color to draw children into the story.

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Caspian’s UnBirthday (Invisible Magic Wand) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Angela Renee Diaz

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Caspian's UnBirthday (Invisible Magic Wand)Caspian’s UnBirthday by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Caspian received brown socks for his unbirthday. He thinks there ordinary socks until grandpa poor’s hot chocolate on them. Then Caspian is flying and Grandpa joins. I read this to my baby and she was entranced. Quick short read that captures her attention and keeps her entertained.

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Caspian’s UnBirthday (Invisible Magic Wand) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Megan Conley

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Caspian's UnbirthdayCaspian’s Unbirthday by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I really like Wickstrom’s books and how she always weaves lessons into them. This is the really cute story of Caspian, his UnBirthday, and his Grandpa’s gift, Hot Chocolate Socks. Caspian, at first, isn’t excited about his UnBirthday gift, but his mother reminds his that there’s always something good to be found in gifts we are given. Then Grandpa shows Caspian how special his socks are and Grandpa has a pair as well. They end up spending the day together having adventures. It’s a really good reminder that we all need to find the good in things and sometimes we need to take days off to have some fun.

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Caspian’s UnBirthday (Invisible Magic Wand) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Jenni Bishop

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Caspian's UnbirthdayCaspian’s Unbirthday by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Even I as an adult really enjoy Caspian’s Unbirthday’s and Grandpa’s gifts along with my grandkids. Although I was a bit hesitant to read this one with them. Why? Because I was wary that they would want to spill hot chocolate on their socks. I was right they did.
Grandpa and Caspian find themselves transport in a broom and mop and zoom off on adventures. It is a story that will make even an adult dream of being able to fly and the places you could go.
With bright and colourful illustrations that children will love join Caspian and Grandpa on this fun magical adventure.

Reviewed by @jennadb

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Caspian’s UnBirthday (Invisible Magic Wand) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Carrie Reed

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Caspian's UnbirthdayCaspian’s Unbirthday by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

My favorite books by this author have to be all of the books with Caspian. Not only is the artwork lovely to look at, I am so jealous that Caspian and his grandpa have so many cool adventures together. The story is so exciting and very creative, I love to see what unbirthday present Caspian gets next and what fun he gets into.

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Bees in Loretta’s Bonnet (Loretta’s Insects) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Ashley Westerman

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Bees in Loretta's Bonnet (Loretta's Insects #2)Bees in Loretta’s Bonnet by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book was a lot of fun and lead to a lot of conversations about bee’s and what they do for us. Those conversations lead to more research and learning about bees. Since I am allergic to bee’s we wont get a chance to make a beehive for our backyard, that this book provided instructions for, but it was great to learn how to do! I love how this author’s books always lead to better conversations for us. I would recommend!

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Caspian’s UnBirthday (Invisible Magic Wand) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Jamie Burns

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Caspian’s UnBirthday is the third book in the Invisible Magic Wand series by Lois Wickstrom. This book is another great addition to the Invisible Magic Wand series. I love the creativity that was used by Wickstrom with the hot chocolate socks. I enjoyed Caspian and his grandpa’s adventures for his unbirthday.

This book is about the birthday present Caspian’s grandpa gave him, it was not your average birthday present. This year all Caspian got was a pair of brown socks from his grandpa called “Hot Chocolate Socks”. What is so special about these socks? They make Caspian float up in the air, but the best part is that grandpa says he cannot go to school on his unbirthday. He has to have a fun adventure instead. Grab a cup of hot chocolate and a copy of Caspian’s UnBirthday to find out about the adventures Caspian and his grandpa have.