The Boggart and the Monster

The Boggart of Castle Keep returns in this follow-up to his first fantastical adventure—chronicled in the eponymous The Boggart—this time reuniting with a long-lost relative. Emily and Jessup Volnik, with whom the Boggart lived in Canada for a time, return to Scotland, and are reunited with thei......more

"The Boggart and the Monster" by Susan Cooper is a fun romp which I found to be even better than its predecessor "The Boggart". In TB&TM, several years have gone by since Canadian siblings Emily and Jessup managed to send the wayward boggart back to his ancestral home in Scotland. As Emily, Jessup,......more

And not just any monster, it’s Scotland’s most famous monster. Much, much bigger than Bigfoot or a platoon of yetis, slumbering at the bottom of Loch Ness in a despondent mood, it’s Nessie. Nessie, revealed in the initial book in Cooper’s Boggart Series to be a boggart, a mischievous, shape shifting......more

This was more fun than The Boggart, though maybe I don't remember my first reading of that. Jess and Emily are back in Scotland at Castel Keep visiting Mr Maconochie, their friend, Tommy, and the Boggart. On the flight to Scotland, Jess makes friends with Harold Pindle, research scientist on a miss......more

Fun children's follow-up to The Boggart, but like its predecessor it doesn't match up to Cooper's absolutely fantastic The Dark is Rising series. Still, if it's fairly slight it's still likeable enough, and there's a really interesting take on the Loch Ness monster that I haven't seen before. I won'......more