The Magic Portal: The Adventures of the Taylor Twins

by W.G. Haslam, Jessica Corbett (Illustrator)

The Magic The Adventures of the Taylor Twins is a fantasy adventure, featuring ten-year-old twins, Morwen and Callon, who—together with their beloved golden retriever, Peaches—accidently discover they have unusual powers that can transport them through secret portals into magical worlds. One Sunday afternoon, while hiking in a conservation area with the twins’ parents, the young trio take a less-travelled path through the forest, stumbling upon a magic portal. As they step through, the portal transports them through the space-time continuum, to incredible worlds where they encounter talking animals and dangerous creatures. They can even communicate with Peaches telepathically in these fantasy worlds! Returning through the portal brings them back to their world as if no time has passed. Morwen and Callon invite their best friends, Zeke and Lily, to join them on their thrilling adventures. Together, the four children, with the intrepid Peaches, travel to fantastic worlds where they meet vicious desert sandworms and raging polar bears, along with wolves, pirates, trolls, goblins, ogres, dragons, wizards, aliens, and many other unusual creatures.Ideal for elementary school–aged children, The Magic Portal makes a great bedtime story, as each chapter is a separate adventure in a different world. Coming Book Two – The Quest

196 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 20, 2021

Reviews

[Nicool · Rating 5 out of 5]

It has been years since I read this book to my child as a read-aloud. I've got to say, it really stuck with me. The stories and adventures were sweet and a bit corny but I still remember them. Such a great book for kids. Peaches is unforgettable.

[Wren Rose · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is so exciting with all of those portals because, well, they basically took them through international travel, known as space travel. And it is also really cool because at the end they found a cool alien civilization with the spaceships, that was really cool. They did. You know? They did see alien civilization in the distance. That's really it.

I think Zeze and Callon were my favourite characters because they were really brave. Because they went inside a spaceship that they didn't entirely know about.

The earlier adventures were really cool when they went and saw the sandworms. And I also learned something new about it, that if you sprinkle salt over top of worms, they shrivel up and die. And that was a cool fact that I learned.

Overall, I kinda actually liked it. I liked it a lot. I would recommend it to my friends of course... because I think they would like it.
-6 years old