I had discovered Eager a couple of years ago and really enjoyed Half Magic (which is a prequel of sorts) so when I saw this in a thrift store I was sure to grab it. It was a cute story and I always love illustrations, but this wasn't a book I have to hold onto.
oh, Edward Eager, you really seem like a swell guy. a family man but not one of those mawkish mewling types who always seem to be about to burst into tears when they talk about their fam. you get kids and you don't bring a lot of sentimentality to the table either; you capture the cheerfulness & the...
One of my favorites! I love the bookishness of the seven-day magic. The self-references are great too- Eager brings up all his other books herein. Or a lot of them. There's even some character crossover. I love how the kids in this book have such definite ideas about how the magic will and will not ...
I really, really, REALLY hated the illustrations of the natterjack. Hated them so much it interfered with my enjoyment of this otherwise enchanting and enchanted story. I loved the central, thyme-y conceit here. I beg to differ that EVERYONE wanted Jo to end up with Laurie in Little Women, however. ...
Time bobs and reels for Eager in the most interesting way. There's a magic turtle in this one, and many familiar children. There are pirates and mermaid and explorers and some over-the-top cannibals who wouldn't be allowed in any modern book. The parents are agreeably clueless but not idiotic, and t...
I'm pretty sure that this book is part of the reason I never read Ivanhoe. The noble work. It's a fun romp, a mash-up of all sorts of classics and tropes. The kids are the second generation of our friends from Half Magic. The magic is different, of course. Magic is always different. Not as great as ...
Of all the Edward Eager books, this is probably the one I know least well, the one I don't think I first sat down and read until I was an adult - which means, unfortunately, that it missed out on that golden period where I devoured books as a child, reread them ad nauseam, and now carry them forever...
Nice call back to one of the previous novels - though this is the second book in a row which relies on tension created by a child sitting there idiotically gabbing out time-related information. There's a complete lack of any sense of danger in the behaviour of these kids.
Although the pace improved in the end, there were several aspects of this which particularly didn't work for me, the greatest being: "I cut off four heads and cleaved three knights in two." Both because it breaks what little versimilitude a "magical adventures" story has (the speaker is a young gir...
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