Thank you for the opportunity to read this book. Unfortunately, while I enjoyed the first book I read in the series I had some problems with the second book I read. I am unable to get into this one.

My son and I read this together and had a great time with it. Evidently there are other books featuring Harry Moon and his family and I look forward to reading those as well. I thank Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.

There are quite a few Harry Moon (and Honey Moon) stories on the market by now and I wasn't Harry's greatest fan at first but slowly but surely I start to like the wizard.
Still, for me there's no denying, the Harry Moon adventures throw a lot of ingredients into the cauldron, which have been there before. I mean, a wizard who goes by the name of Harry? Come on.

The evil character sounds in this story quite a bit like the Grinch. OK, he isn't a Christmas hater, as in Sleepy Hollow, where Harry lives, it's always Halloween, but he controls the weather and is determined to stop it from snowing and doesn't like the kids having fun.

And again, there's no denying either, this are more short novellas which are spread with a lot of space between lines and paragraphs to fill books of around 200 pages.

On the other hand I feel the author really develops his own style here and I like the humour he injects and Harry and his friends are likeable characters.
The books would suit early middle graders, particularly the ones who like all things wizardry.

Once again, I got the opportunity to visit Sleepy Hollow as well as Harry Moon, his family and his friends. These books are a cross between adventure, magic, families, friends and some bad characters. The town has been taken over by the mayor and it is Halloween themed and there are some pretty nasty characters floating around.

In this outing Harry gets his first chance to see snow. You see, due to Kilgore's spell, it never snows in Sleepy Hollow. In fact, Harry is already 13, and it has never snowed in his lifetime. So when he wakes up that morning, he can't believe it when he looks outside and sees enough snow to bring the whole town to a standstill. There is no school and no algebra test, but there is time for snowballs, sledding and playing all day in the snow. While Honey, Declan, Hao, and Riley and Harry all love the snow, Kilgore is not happy. In fact he sends out his henchmen dressed up creepy snowmen to try and stop the fun. Harry is a budding magician, but he has to think long and hard whether this is the right time to use his magic. A great good vs evil story, bullying, as well as teaching that it is important to think over a situation before deciding if and when to act. It is also a fun winter story. The illustrations are fun and will appeal to young readers. It is a chapter book, that would be appropriate for children 10 and up. I could see some reluctant readers (especially boys) liking this series and wanting to read more. A good addition for a school or class library, and I would suggest getting the previous books as well. I have read others in this series and the Honey Moon series and they would all fit nicely.

It never snows in Sleepy Hollow. Harry Moon is already 13, and it has never snowed in his lifetime. So when he wakes up, trying to prepare himself mentally for his algebra test, he can't believe it when he finally looks outside and sees enough snow to bring the whole town to a halt. No school! No algebra test! Just snowballs and sledding, all day long! 

Harry isn't the only one who is excited. His 10-year-old sister Honey is ready to go out and get snowy, and Harry's best friends Hao, Declan, and Riley are all also ready to get out in the snow and have some fun. 

But not everyone is happy with the snow. In fact, the whole snowstorm was a huge mistake. Mayor Kilgore uses a magic incantation every night to keep Sleepy Hollow at a regulated temperature, and when a smuggled kitten activated the Mayor's allergies the night before, he wasn't able to stop the snow from coming. But he could send out his two sons and his two evil henchmen, dressed up as creepy snowmen, to try to put a stop to all the kids' fun. 

When Harry and his friends find out that the creepy snowmen are terrorizing the kids of the town, they know they need to do something. Harry is tempted to bring out his magic wand and use his developing powers to stop the snowmen, but his mentors encourage him to think very carefully before he acts. But he and his friends want to do something to stop the evil they feel is taking over their town. It is up to Harry to decide how he'll fight to get his town back. 

Harry Moon Snow Day is a charming story of good verses evil, with lots of hot chocolate and sledding thrown in for good measure. Even though Harry is a young magician, learning when it's a good idea to use his powers and when not to, the lessons he learns are universal and could be translated to any spiritual construct where you want to teach children how to be smart and compassionate in their choices. It's a lovely story, and author Mark Andrew Poe underlines it with lessons in love. 



Galleys for Harry Moon Snow Day were provided by Diamond Book Distributors through NetGalley, with many thanks.

I had trouble getting into this series, but I am sure much younger readers would enjoy it. It seems very funny.

Sweet book about a boy, Harry Moon, and his friends who set out to conquer evil with magic but discovers that friendship and hope are better weapons.

This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher.

This was yet another book in the Harry Moon wizard series and I liked this even less than I did the first. The situation has not changed. There is a derivative Harry the wizard boy living in a derivative town (Sleepy Hollow, yawn), permanently stuck in a derivate Halloween, and being harassed by trope stupid, but brutal villains. Again the illustrations are by Christina Weidman and again they depict whites only.

The villains work for the mayor, Kligore, whose motivation is entirely unclear. Why he is evil goes unexplained. What he hopes to gain from it goes unexplained. Why he keeps the town permanently at Halloween goes unexplained. Why no one outside the town even notices Sleepy Hollow is permanently at Halloween goes unexplained. Why the senior magician in situ never does anything to stop the mayor's evil goes unexplained. Why no adults or police in town ever even so much as try anything to stop the mayor's evil goes unexplained. Why Harry, supposedly the derivative last great white hope for salvation (in which other magical Harry book series did I read that now?) never ever ever performs any magic, nor seems to learn anything new goes unexplained. In short, the novel made even less sense than the prologue novel did.

The only difference between this and the previous one is that Harry is somehow now quite famous in town (for reasons which went entirely unexplained). Because the mayor is allergic to cats (despite employing a humanoid one as a minion!), he forgets to control the weather (why he must do this each night goes as unexplained as why he even wishes to do it), and again for reasons unexplained, it snows. So snow day! School is out! All the kids want to play in the snow, but the mayor's minions are ordered to stop them having any fun. Why on this day they're not supposed to have fun when on every other day the mayor apparently has no problem with kids having fun goes unexplained.

The villains, including the mayor's two sons, dress in white track suits and wear ski masks, and they patrol the town brutalizing - quite literally - the young children who are out sledding. They scare the kids, break the sleds, and yet no police ever show up! No one even calls the police and the parents of the town do quite literally nothing to stop it. Not a single parent even has anything to say about this terrorism. These violent and merciless kids are encasing blocks of ice in snow and throwing them at other kids' heads. Yet they face no justice whatsoever by the story's end.

Never once does the majestic white wizard Harry ever bring out his wand - because that would be inappropriate! What? This book was unnecessarily violent, entirely unjust, and was a wizard book in which the great wizard boy never does any magic, not even to save young kids from being hurt. In short, Harry is just as evil in passively letting this happen and not reporting it, as any of the mayor's minions! It's entirely inappropriate for young children to read, even though it is evidently written for the young end of middle-grade. Apparently the message being purveyed here is that bullying is wrong, but doing anything to stop it is also wrong!

The magic on the extremely rare occasions we do get a fleeting glimpse of it in these books is of the original Harry-the-wizard sort: mindlessly simplistic, except that instead of chanting two Latin words and waving a stick, they chant an English rhyme and wave a stick. There is no cost to anyone for using this magic, yet even though it is so simple and inexplicably cost-free, Harry still cannot bring himself to do it, not even to save young kids. Not even to save his friends. I'm sorry, but no!

Again, with its wide margins and widely-spaced paragraphs, this book is quite literally a waste of paper, and I cannot recommend it.

This is another great middle grade story about the Moon children.

I love the “moon” refererences in the children names: Honey Moon and Harvest Moon. They are so cute.

The mayor is quite a villain in this story. He doesn’t cast a spell to prevent snow from coming to Sleepy Hollow, so it snows there the next day. I can’t imagine a town without snow, or a spell that can prevent snow from falling! We have had so much snow in Toronto already, and it’s only January so we have a few more months of snow to go!

This is a good twist on the snow day story. Most kids are always wishing for a snow day so they can be off school, but the kids in Sleepy Hollow had never had a snow day before so it was an extra special occasion.

This is a great winter story for kids!