by N.M. Bodecker, Edward Eager
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 ...
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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