Zac and the Dream Stealers
By Ross MacKenzie
Hardcover
Publisher: The Chicken House
Release date: June 1, 2012

I LOVED this book! It’s been ages since this crusty, old Book Slave has read a book for children ages 8 to 12 and I was absolutely delighted all the way through first time author Ross MacKenzie‘s Zac and the Dream Stealers.

Poor Zac Wonder has been having the kind of nightmares that startle him awake each night, which is how he learns that his Granny’s been slipping out of the house at the stroke of midnight. One night, the young boy decides to follow Granny and ends up in a dream world called Nocturne and learns that his sweet, old Granny is a whole lot more than merely sweet and old. Granny’s one of the Knights of Nod, a secret organization of magicians formed to protect Nocturne against the Dream Stealers. She’s been summoned back to Nocturne by Grandmaster magician Rumpous Tinn, only he’s not there when they arrive. Someone has kidnapped Rompous Tinn and the Knights devise a plan to find him.