Legacy pages

Part of the problem, Nita thought as she tore desperately down Rose Avenue, is that I can’t keep my mouth shut.   She had been running for five minutes now, hopping fences, sliding sideways through…

  Dell Publishing Company brought out Young Wizards novels in hardcover between 1983 and 1990, and the paperbacks between 1983 and 1992. During this period they appeared in a surprising range of covers for such…

  David Wiesner (So You Want to Be a Wizard)  Still a new artist on the scene when Delacorte commissioned him in 1982 to do the cover for So You Want to Be a Wizard,…

Now a familiar name to science fiction and fantasy readers, Darrell Sweet was at the time of his YW work just getting started on a prolific career. Then busy with work for everything from Dell…

  Transworld Books published the Young Wizards novels in the 1990s… …in the United Kingdom, and distributed them there as well as in Canada and the Australia / New Zealand markets. The covers were in…

  The other UK “Wizards” publisher was Hodder & Stoughton. They published the two books of the “Feline Wizards” sequence, starting with The Book of Night with Moon in 1997 (ISBN: 0340693282). This was a…

The Young Wizards books had a long-standing and friendly relationship with the US side of the SF Book Club. The first “omnibus” edition of the initial three novels, published as Support Your Local Wizard (ISBN:…

I’ve never heard of the “Young Wizards” series before. Is it an imitation of the Harry Potter books? Diane Duane began the construction of the Young Wizards universe in 1981, and wrote the first Young…

I’ve never heard of the “Young Wizards” series before. Is it an imitation of the Harry Potter books? Diane Duane began the construction of the Young Wizards universe in 1981, and wrote the first Young…