Edward Eager’s Half Magic is a wonderful book, and I find myself eager (pun intended) to discover the rest of his works. Half Magic is an older book, set in the 1920’s, but the story is remarkably timeless.
One summer, four siblings find a strange coin on the sidewalk, a coin that grants wishes…sort of. The coin only grants HALF of every wish. So if you wish you were a hundred miles away, you’d be fifty miles away. If you wished to be on a desert island, you might find yourself only in a desert. It doesn’t take long to see that half a wish leads to twice as much trouble.
In the end, the children must band together to undo the mistakes of their wishes. With plenty of wry humor, crazy magic and terrific characters, Half Magic is a book that both kids and adults will enjoy.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
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