The Lost Magician * Piers Torday
1945. They have survived the Blitz, but when Simon, Patricia, Evelyn and Larry step through a mysterious library door, it is the beginning of their most dangerous adventure yet. They discover the magical world of Folio, where an enchanted kingdom of fairy knights, bears and tree gods is under threat from a sinister robot army. The many stories of the Library are locked in eternal war, and the children's only hope is to find their creator - a magician who has been lost for centuries. What they discover will change not just their own lives, but the fate of the world, for ever... When four siblings venture to a library through the attic door of an old country home, they can't believe what they're seeing. Simon, Patricia, Evie and Larry have come to Hatfield Hall to live over the school holidays after the most recent war. Though none of the children envisioned getting caught up in a war of their own, especially a war between robots, bears and other mythical creature...