Il Mistero della Casa del Tempo The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs translated by Roberta Verde

Il Mistero della Casa del Tempo The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs translated by Roberta Verde is a beautiful, quick positive fantasy book that you will read in a few hours, telling a story of power, magic, and happy ends.

Written with a captivating style, mixes warm images of help, love, friendship, warm tea, milk and delicious sweet chocolate cookies with problems related to old houses and objects potentially cursed, written papers,  but also clocks, furniture in grade of speaking the language of the past, numerous rooms hiding secrets and possibility of escapism, but the most a house with numerous fireplaces, warm feelings, some eccentricity and a resistant past.
If you wait for a scaring book plenty of tension, forget it: the book is extremely pleasant, written with the joyous purpose of entertain, presenting a good reading to everyone.

I still didn't know that this one is also a new coming movie.
If the movie will be good as the book is, it will be enchanting!

Lewis is just 10 years but he lost both his parents abruptly; now, sad, he is waited at New Zebedee in Michigan where his eccentric uncle Jonathan lives.

Pretty religious, the teenager remembers while he says the prayers, the words of their beloved parents regarding uncle Jonathan. He smoked, drunk a lot sometimes, but after all he was a good devil, ahem, man.
Lewis doesn't know if his new house and this relative will be good, discovering not just a wonderful and warm person in Jonathan but also a big and old house where it is wonderful to discover everyday something new.

Lewis learns that Jonathan bought the house several years ago and that the previous owner a certain Isaac Izard and wife were pretty wired people and yes, interested in black magic.

But also the uncle of Lewis, Jonathan is a magical man.
Jonathan is helped in his daily routine by mrs Zimmermann, a nice and chatty lady. A witch, confessed Jonathan to Lewis.

At school Lewis makes friendship just with a boy because he is a bit fat and so the rest of children love to denigrate him. Tarby is different and tries his best for being a good friend of Lewis.

One day Tarby asks for some magic, because he knows that Jonathan is in grade to do that, and he will be satisfied; one night at the local cemetery, Lewis will evoke with Tarby the spirit of someone in a grave. They don't know who this person is but look what a mess, they picked up the wrong grave. The phantom appears immediately; it's pretty cheerful and satisfied while the two children run away terrorized scared and desperate; problems will start to become serious.
That phantom in fact will cause the final fight with ms Zimmermann, the neighbor of Jonathan, Jonathan and Lewis.

The purpose of Izard? The final and complete destruction of the world.

Highly recommended to children and adults! This book is beautiful!

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Anna Maria Polidori