MERLINA AND THE MAGICAL MISHAP By Daniella Drescher

Merlina And The Magical Mishap, by Daniella Dreshcer, is a sweet, playful bedtime read with warm illustrations from the creator of In the Land of Fairies.  A gently humorous story about friendship, making mistakes and trying your best

Merlina the little witch and Igor the dragon are busy with the harvest. When Igor gets hurt, can Merlina whip up a spell to help him? This is the perfect book for harvest time and Halloween and for little ones who love magic.

Drescher conjures up a witch's cottage full of cosy clutter and a delightful pumpkin patch dotted with seasonal wildlife in her luminous and unique style.

Hard cover, 106 pages

Floris Books, made in the UK

Daniela Drescher is an internationally acclaimed author and illustrator from Munich, Germany. Daniela was a children's painting and drawing therapist for ten years, using her own poetry in her therapeutic work. Now the creator of more than 40 children's books, Daniela still draws the fairies and elves she imagined as a child. Her work is inspired by nature and her wish to engage children with the natural world. As well as books, Daniela's artwork appears on stationery, homeware and fabric. Her best-known books available in English include In the Land of Fairies, the Little Fairy stories and the Pippa and Pelle board books.

She is also the illustrator of stunning fairy tale anthologies An Illustrated Treasury of Grimm's Fairy Tales and An Illustrated Treasury of Dwarfs, Gnomes and Fairy Folk.