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Picture · ages 4–8

Super Frozen Magic Forest

Written and illustrated by Matty Long

Book 3 of 3 in Super Happy Magic Forest Picture BooksView the full series

Part of the Super Happy Magic Forest universeOpen the collection

Top giftableEndlessly rereadable

The Super Happy Magic Forest has frozen solid. Something must be done. The final picture book in the trilogy is the most visually spectacular, Matty Long's ice-and-snow colour palette is genuinely beautiful, and a satisfying close to the picture book arc.

  • Best for4–8
  • FormatPicture
  • Length48 pp
  • Read aloud~10 min
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The vibe

What it’s like.

Style

  • Conversational
  • Comedic
  • Onomatopoeic

Tone

  • Funny
  • Silly
  • Exciting
  • Adventurous
  • Whimsical
  • Absurdist
  • Irreverent

Themes

On the pagemagic forest, frozen forest, ice, quest, snow, visual joke

Experience meters

Energy5/ 5
Humour5/ 5
Scariness2/ 5
Peril2/ 5
Wonder5/ 5
Cosiness2/ 5
Emotional intensity2/ 5
Conceptual intensity2/ 5

What’s it about?

The story.

Something has gone very wrong with the Super Happy Magic Forest. It is cold. It is icy. It is, in fact, entirely frozen. Our five heroes must journey through blizzards, past ice creatures, and up frozen mountains to find the source of the freeze and stop it before the forest becomes a permanent ice sculpture. Matty Long's third and final picture book in the trilogy is the most visually ambitious: the shift to an ice-and-snow palette gives the series' characteristic dense illustration style a new set of colours and visual jokes to work with, and the frozen landscape allows for a different kind of physical comedy from the previous books. The group dynamics are now well-established, which means the character jokes land faster and the book rewards readers who have been following along from the beginning. The picture book that closes one chapter of the collection and opens the door to the chapter book series, by the end, readers who want more will know exactly what to pick up next.

Fit check

Right for your child?

Where it lands by age

  • 1
  • 3
  • 5
  • 7
  • 9
  • 11
  • 13
  • Best fit · 4–8
  • Read aloud · 4–9
  • Independent · 6–8

Prose load

Light

Visual support

Very high

Reluctant-reader friendly

Very

Read-aloud quality

Excellent

Works well for

  • Reading aloud
  • Reading together
  • Gift-buying
  • Reluctant readers
Low sensitivityNo content warnings

Nothing in the book is likely to concern most parents. Safe to recommend without preview.

Bedtime suitability

2 / 5 · Better outside bedtime

Sensitive-child

4 / 5 · Good fit

Graphic intensity

2 / 5 · Mild

Best for

  • Laugh out loud
  • Reluctant readers
  • Visual comedy
  • Gift book
  • Read aloud performance

Avoid if

No common reasons to avoid this one — a rare clean sweep on the sensitivity flags.

Particularly good for children who are…

  • Reluctant reader
  • Interested in art and creativity
  • Making friends
  • Struggling with reading

In the classroom

How it works in school.

A funny, detail-packed fantasy picture-book series — a fun read-aloud and seek-and-find favourite.

Classroom role

  • Read aloud
  • Classroom library

A book children love that happens to support school — never a stand-in for the texts a class is taught with. Reviewed for the classroom · June 2026.

Why it lands

Why they love it.

Why kids love it

The specific delight is the forest turned to ice — the cheerful magical landscape suddenly frozen solid, the five tiny heroes trekking through blizzards to thaw it. The Super Happy Magic Forest with the most spectacular visual makeover.

  • Secret world
  • Adventure and freedom
  • Magic powers
  • Surviving danger

Why parents love it

The frozen Super Happy Magic Forest — third picture book, ice-and-snow palette giving Matty Long fresh visual material, the most ambitious illustration in the trilogy. Strong winter/Christmas-shelf pick. Best read after the first two.

  • Shared humour
  • Nostalgia
  • Conversation starter
  • Quick to read

In the series

Super Happy Magic Forest Picture Books.

3 books · open the series →

About the author & illustrator

Matty Long.

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Matty Long

Writer & illustrator · United Kingdom

Matty Long is a British author-illustrator best known for the Super Happy Magic Forest series, irreverent, joke-saturated comic picture books / chapter-comic hybrids about a band of cheerful fantasy creatures (a unicorn, a fairy, a slug, a faun) on increasingly silly quests. Long's style is bright, panel-led, gag-heavy and densely visual, with running jokes for adult readers underneath. The series is a reliable bridge for kids moving from picture books into longer comic-format reading, with strong reluctant-reader pull for ages 5–9. Long also illustrates a range of other picture books and works in animation. A great gateway author for funny-bone children not yet ready for Bone or Hilo.

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