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Half Magic (1954)

de Edward Eager

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Classic Literature. Fantasy. Juvenile Fiction. Juvenile Literature. It all begins with a strange coin on a sun-warmed sidewalk. Jane finds the coin, and because she and her siblings are having the worst, most dreadfully boring summer ever, she idly wishes something exciting would happen. And something does: Her wish is granted. Or not quite. Only half of her wish comes true. It turns out the coin grants wishes??but only by half, so that you must wish for twice as much as you want. Wishing for two times some things is a cinch, but other doubled wishes only cause twice as much trouble. What is half of twice a talking cat? Or to be half-again twice not-here? And how do you double your most heartfelt wish, the one you care about so much it has to be perfe… (més)
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Somehow I missed Edward Eager in my childhood sprint through classic fantasy. There are some dated elements, but nothing that endangers the story or would make me hesitate to give it a child today.

A fun and silly romp about children and magic, very much indebted to Edith Nesbit.

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  ManWithAnAgenda | Aug 31, 2023 |
Review from my daughter, age 9.
“I liked Half-Magic. I don’t think it’s a good read aloud but good to read yourself. It has an interesting plot twist. If you like magic, funniness, or unusual things that happen you’ll like Half-Magic.” ( )
  FamiliesUnitedLL | Jul 15, 2023 |
Back when I was a kid, I read Seven-Day Magic without knowing at the time that the classic children's fantasy tale was part of a series. So, I've finally taken the chance to see where these Tales of Magic begin in the first book.

As expected, I got quite a kick out of this old-fashioned, quirky, humorous adventure. It's got lessons wrapped inside for the characters and such a poignant ending that echoes with unknown, further possibilities.

Yet, I appreciate aspects of the story and feel a little iffy about other aspects now in ways that my eight- or nine-year-old mind wouldn't have if I'd read this book back then... ( )
  NadineC.Keels | Feb 3, 2023 |
http://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/eagere-halfmagic/eagere-halfmagic-00-h.html

I read this book as a kid because my parents had read this book as a kid (it would have just been released for them). Some of the parts really stuck with me and I remember hunting down the rest of the series and enjoying most of them. Rereading them now as an adult the book is a lot shorter than I remember and of course it reads like a book written in the 50s about life in the 20s because that's exactly what it is. I feel almost like it's going back three generations and that's pretty wild.

These children are of course fictional children written by an adult ... so they are very well-read. They drop lots of references to fictional characters or real people or real publications that just sailed right over my head when I read this before. Now with the power of the Internet they are just a quick Googling away. I wonder if parents reading this book aloud to their children in the 50s got a laugh seeing these things in print. Even as a child I was savvy enough to catch the biggest name-drop in the book which was the multiple references to the books by E Nesbit, and I know that when I finished this series her books were the next ones to be checked out. ( )
1 vota Dirt006 | Jan 26, 2022 |
This is a childhood favorite and while I still found the story funny and inventive and the writing charming, I also noticed a lot more of its flaws. Like the racism, aaand the sexism. I know its a product of its time, but still. :/

There is a great full cast audio version of this book as well that is well worth checking out. ( )
  mutantpudding | Dec 26, 2021 |
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Bodecker, N.M.Il·lustradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
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"It's that nickel I found, only it isn't a nickel! It's a magic charm and it does things by halves! So far we've each go half of what we wished for - all we have to do from now on is ask for twice as much as we really want! You see?"
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Classic Literature. Fantasy. Juvenile Fiction. Juvenile Literature. It all begins with a strange coin on a sun-warmed sidewalk. Jane finds the coin, and because she and her siblings are having the worst, most dreadfully boring summer ever, she idly wishes something exciting would happen. And something does: Her wish is granted. Or not quite. Only half of her wish comes true. It turns out the coin grants wishes??but only by half, so that you must wish for twice as much as you want. Wishing for two times some things is a cinch, but other doubled wishes only cause twice as much trouble. What is half of twice a talking cat? Or to be half-again twice not-here? And how do you double your most heartfelt wish, the one you care about so much it has to be perfe

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