"Ruby is still trying to learn about magic, and Granny McQuirky is sending her lessons via the mail wind to help her. Ann Rosemount, Ruby's mother, is against Ruby using magic of any kind and forbids her to use it in the house. But Ruby can't obey, and when her house-proud mother decides to give the tarnished old travellers telescope a polish, Mrs Pinkus from next door disappears! Ruby and her friends, Avalon and Jaffa, must go in after her. One minute Ruby is in her lounge room and the next she is in a dark forest with Avalon, Jaffa and the magic carpet. To Ruby's horror, she discovers that they are not alone..." --Back cover.