 | Zatanna and the house of secrets Author: Cody, Matthew | |
| Price: $8.19 | ||
Summary:
Zatanna and her professional magician father live in a house full of magic, puzzles, and storybook creatures, but when she stands up to a bully in school, she returns home to find her father's gone missing within their own home. In graphic novel format.
| Illustrator: | Yoshitani, Yoshi |
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 02/15/2020 Zatanna is an ordinary girl living an ordinary life full of friendship issues and middle-school angst. She lives in an ordinary house with her ordinary widowed magician father and his ordinary rabbit in a hat. Then one day she comes home to find a witch in the front hallway of her now “awake” house, where her father’s rabbit begins talking to her. Her father has disappeared, and she must team up with the witch’s child to save her family and her home. This fun origin story for a member of DC Comics’ Justice League is as much an introduction to the House of Secrets as it is to the character of Zatanna herself. The dialogue is snappy, and the plot moves quickly—as does the exposition—keeping readers from being bogged down by backstories that originated in the 1960s. The bold artwork consistently features an appropriately witchy color palette of purples and oranges, and the minimal backgrounds make the expressive figures pop. Another solid entry in DC’s line of stand-alone graphic novels for middle-grade readers. - Copyright 2020 Booklist.
