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Summary: Sonya's Review
Review: It is about four children and their mother who found a magic charm. All kind og things happen to them. In the end they have got a stepfather. I think this book is very good because it makes you have imagination. Other kids should read this book. I would like to read more books by the same author.
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Summary: A Great Fantasy that teaches a lesson
Review: After hearing about this book from a friend, I decided that I would get it when I saw it at a school book fair. This is one of the best books around! I read it very quickly, and enjoyed the story of Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha very much. The author did a teriffic job of making you feel a part of the book. Half Magic also teaches a lesson though- be careful what you wish for, it just might come true!
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Summary: Great book
Review: Half Magic is an excellent book for people who like fantasy books. It is about 4 kids who find a nickel, except it really isn't a nickel it is a magic talisman! The only problem is that the talisman only grants half of every wish. The kids have to wish for twice as much as they want. They have all sorts of magic adventures. If you like this book, you'll also enjoy Knight's Castle and The Time Garden, both by Edward Eager. Also, in this book, the kids talk about fantasy books by E Nesbit. She was a real author! So, you should try books by her,too!
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Summary: Double-Wishing
Review: Ever since I read this book, I have been double-wishing things. It is an enjoyment for all!
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Summary: Half Magic is All Magical!
Review: I liked it because the characters go on so many adventures. I couldn't put the book down. It was funny, then scary, then adventurous, and sometimes all three at the same time. I recommend this book to those who like books about magic and adventure.
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Summary: A completely witty classic
Review: I first read this book in the third grade, and have been re-reading it annually for the past 30 years. Nothing in the intervening years has been able to touch it (certainly NOT Harry Potter). It is the spiritual heir to the books of the great English fantasy writer E. Nesbit; it is completely unsentimental, original, witty, and does not talk down to children, something I appreciated even when I was 8. The best part, though, is the clever dovetailing between this book and its sequels "Knights Castle," "Magic By The Lake," and "The Time Garden" -- at one point you'll have the wonderful realization that you're reading the stories of two generations of children from the same family whose "magicks" cleverly overlap! Buy these books, and, if you can, Eager's equally wonderful and final book "Seven-Day Magic" (chickadee tidbits!).
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Summary: Great book
Review: This is a really interesting book. Mark, Jane, Katharine, and Martha have a coin which will grant a half-wish. There are a lot of twists and a cool ending. I recommend this to everyone!
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Summary: References to Alice
Review: I just wanted to add to all of the people that love this book (me included), that what I love most about it is all the really FUN references to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass". Edward Eager is an incredible writer, and you know it's because he has incredible taste in classic literature. Like "Alice", but for a younger audience, this book is INCREDIBLE! I've read it zillions of times...
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Summary: "Half Magic" -- Entirely Fun
Review: In 1956, i found a copy of this book in Miss Hollytree's third-grade classroom in Greenville SC.I was already a confirmed reader (with a couple of the "Swallows & Amazons" books under my belt), with an inclination toward fantasy, and this was Just My Thing. The concept that each bit of magic has rules that you have to deduce and learn in order to make it do what you want was and is a wonderful one (with echoes, intentional or otherwise, in Dave Duncan's "Man of His Word" books), which it me, age eight, like a thunderbolt. The setting in a time gone by (the 1920's), the references to other books and other stories (there are even more in the sequels and Eager's other children's fantasies) and the genral air of slightly bewildered straight-faced whimsey endeared the book to me, and still do, almost forty-five years later. And there are a couple of valuable little lessons more or less painlessly worked into the story, which ought endear it to parents and teachers (but don't tell the kids, right?) This book and its sequels have gone in and out of print for years; whenever, after a long drought, i would again encounter it, i would realise just what large parts of it i had painlessly committed to memoey, and i would realise just how much i again enjoyed re-reading Eager's whimsical prose. It's a kids book, but adults who enjoy a good light fantasy with a touch of truth at bottom should like it, also. (The original illustrations by N.M.Bodecker, reprinted here, complement the text wonderfully...)
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Summary: Wonderful text!
Review: I couldn't put the book down! I liked it so much I am doing a book report on it. It was an exciting story about magic and the kids' adventures were fun. It was as good as Harry Potter stories. I am interested in buying more of Edward Eager's books.
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