by Edward Eager, N.M. Bodecker
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 ...
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...
"The best kind of book," says Barnaby, "is a magic book." Oh, yes, I thought, nodding, of course. I remember reading this book when I was a little ten year old girl. ...