SuitabookFamily change and belonging
Tilly resists her father’s remarriage, does not get on with her future step-sister, and leaves before the wedding.
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Linda Chapman - Author
This is a magical rescue story set alongside a child’s difficult response to a parent’s remarriage. Its most distinctive idea is that solving the immediate problem involves both a vision of the future and forgotten memories.
The third book featuring Lauren and her pony Twilight who changes into a unicorn when Lauren says the magic words. Lauren's friend Tilly doesn't want her father to re-marry. She doesn't get on with her future step-sister and doesn't know what to do. On the day of the wedding Tilly runs away and is found in Twilight's stable. Twilight conjures a vision of the future and shows Tilly how miserable her family would be without her and she agrees to go back. Lauren and Twilight use magic to help Tilly return to the wedding in time. In return Tilly promises to drink a special potion which makes her forget everything that Twilight and Lauren have shown her and keeps Twilight's secret safe.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a magical rescue story set alongside a child’s difficult response to a parent’s remarriage. Its most distinctive idea is that solving the immediate problem involves both a vision of the future and forgotten memories.
Tilly resists her father’s remarriage, does not get on with her future step-sister, and leaves before the wedding.
Consider whether the child would welcome a story involving a parent’s remarriage, conflict with a future step-sibling, running away, and a character being made to forget a magical experience.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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