Seven-Day Magic

“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.
I found Half Magic on the bottom shelf, dusty, almost unread,
and felt like I'd discovered a whole new world. Imagine how sad
I was to find that there were only two more Edward Eager books
in our library, which composed for me the entire extent of my book world!

The book was every bit as good to me as a forty-seven year old
as it was so many years ago. I'm “Eager” to read more Eager magic.