Best Magical Series for 7 and 8 year olds

Great destinies, hatching dragons, quests to find hidden artefacts and potions and spells... Magical books do more than take us to faraway lands. They show us entirely new worlds.

7 and 8. Eek. The tricky years for reading. While children can be independent readers, they're still developing their vocabulary, fluency and comprehension skills. Finding worlds they wish they could live in and characters they love to come back to time and time again couldn't be more important.

We've read through Toppsta book reviews. We've found the most compelling characters, the most epic adventures and the best of magical worlds and systems, all for you to read and explore for yourself in our spellbinding list of magical series for children aged 7 and 8.

Georgina Atwell

Toppsta

2026-03-14

2024-05-03

Best Magical Series for 7 and 8 year olds

Pages & Co. Series

Pages and Co by Anna James is the perfect series for bookworms aged 8+. The bestselling series celebrates the best things in life: books, adventure, friendship, and cake.

The Pages and Co series follows the magical, bookwandering adventures of Tilly – an eleven-year old who has lived above her grandparents’ bookshop ever since her mother disappeared, shortly after she was born. She loves to escape into the pages of her favourite stories and one day the characters start crossing over from the page to the real world “book wandering” into the shop...

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The Amelia Fang Series Series

Meet Amelia Fang – a little vampire with a big heart for readers aged 7+!

Amelia lives with her parents Count Drake and Countess Frivoleeta, and her pet pumpkin Squashy, in Nocturnia, where glitter is terrifying and unicorns and sparkly fairies are the stuff of day-mares. Amelia and her best friends Florence the yeti (NOT a beast!) and Grimaldi the reaper may want to spend their time watching Deathflix at Fang Mansion, munching on Unlucky Arms cereal or toe-jam on toast, but they can’t help falling into the most gripping and ghoulish adventures...

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The House at the Edge of Magic series Series

We love this imaginative series for readers aged 7+ because it is full of magic, wonder and mischief.

Nine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures. When she steals a house-shaped ornament from a mysterious woman’s purse, she knocks on its tiny door and watches it grow into a huge, higgledy-piggeldy house. Inside she finds a host of magical and brilliantly funny characters, who have all been placed under an extraordinary spell, and Nine's life will never be the same again...

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Spellcasters Series

This series has everything we could ask for: a group of strong female characters, which all come from different backgrounds, loads of magic and adventure, and fantastic black-and-white illustrations that bring these books for readers 7+ to life!

In the books, four music-loving friends set up a band, only to discover that that they have something even more special in common - they can all channel the magical powers of their ancestors. They can shapeshift, control nature, read minds and even perform astral projection. Their magical adventures will take them travelling through time, saving nature and much more.

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Dragon Storm Series

For all fans of Beast Quest and How To Train Your Dragon, this new fantasy chapter book series for readers aged 7+ is full of adventure, surprises and friendship.

When a boy named Tomas gets a special invitation to join a secret society, the Dragonseer Guild, he can barely believe it. Dragons have not lived in the land of Draconis since the Dragon Storm, and ever since the storm humans have been living separate lives to the winged mythical creatures. But Tomas' invitation will open up a secret world where children can summon their own dragons and adventure to fight for the greater good awaits...

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Nothing to see Here Hotel Series

The Nothing to See Here Hotel series by Steven Butler is a brilliantly funny and fantastical series for readers 7+.

Brought to life with imaginative illustrations from Steven Lenton, the books are packed with mayhem, monsters and magic. The Nothing to See Here Hotel is a secret hotel for magical creatures, run by Frankie Banister and his parents. The number 1 holiday destination for magicals where everyone is welcome – from goblin princes to yeti families. Kids will love the wacky characters, crazy adventures and fabulous illustrations.

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The Boy Who Grew Dragons Series

The Boy Who Grew Dragons is the perfect series to help children aged 7+ engage with reading independently, with at its centre a little boy who...GROWS DRAGONS!

Tomas is a little boy who initially doesn't think much of the strange old tree in his grandfather's garden. But his whole life changes when, one day, he takes a closer look at its strange fruit. Little does he know that tree grows DRAGONS, and his life is about to take a very unusual turn because dragons... Poo in your porridge.. Singe your eyebrows... Make themselves a cosy nest by shredding ALL your mum's alphabetically ordered recipes... Chase your cat... Set light to your toothbrush...

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Harry Potter Series

We recommend so many books and series you may have never heard of here at Toppsta, but Harry Potter is the no-brainer that comes up time and time again. A magical adventure series for readers aged 8+, full of fantastical characters, found family, and the triumph of love over evil.

The books follow a young orphaned boy called Harry Potter who one day receives an invitation to a magical school for wizards, where he will meet friends that will last a lifetime, grow into an adult over the course of seven books, as well as defeat the greatest evil of all time.

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More to explore

Aziza’s Secret Fairy Door by Lola Morayo and Cory Reid (Macmillan)

Bad Mermaids by Sibeal Pounder (Bloomsbury)

Cinders and Sparks by Lindsey Kelk and Pippa Curnick (HarperCollins)

Diary of an Accidental Witch by Honor & Perdita Cargill and Kate Saunders (Little Tiger)

Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler and Sarah Gibb (Hachette)

Fairy Tales Gone Bad by Joseph Coelho and Freya Hartas (Walker)

Fairytale Woods by Ben Miller and Elisa Paganelli (Simon & Schuster Ltd)

Frankie’s Magic Football by Frank Lampard (Hachette)

Guardians of the New Moon by Eric Huang and Phung Nguyen Quang (Little Tiger)

Little Legends by Tom Percival (Macmillan)