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Seven-Day Magic (Tales of Magic #7)
“Luckily for Edward Eager’s fans, the children in his latest book are just as lively and literary as those in Half Magic.”--The New York Times Book Review
Hardcover, 190 pages
Published
August 16th 1999
by Harcourt Children's Books
(first published 1962)
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I know I read this as a child, but it must have been only once, because so much of it seemed fresh and new to me. Tommy was enthusiastic, especially at first, because he has lately been really into spotting "references" in books and TV shows (this largely brought about by his current fixation with The Simpsons). So it was exciting to him, that the first magical adventure referenced the Oz books, the second
Half Magic
and the third the Little House books, all of which he's somewhat familiar with...more
I loved Edward Eager books as a child, and they're still fun. Seven Day Magic is charming because it's about the magic of books and a bookish sort of magic. Eager certainly is, as Bellow said of writers, "a reader moved to emulation," and this one drips with his love of books. It's sweet, good fun.
That said, when I was a child, I was like Fredericka in this book (actually, I suppose I WAS Fredericka, down to long, funny F name and favorite Oz book) and liked "magic adventure[s], with wizards and...more
That said, when I was a child, I was like Fredericka in this book (actually, I suppose I WAS Fredericka, down to long, funny F name and favorite Oz book) and liked "magic adventure[s], with wizards and...more
A really odd book, almost a post-modern one. It spends more time name-dropping and referring to other books than it does making a memorable story.
Even the premise is a riff on Five Children and It, where five kids take turns getting wishes from an unreliable source. In this case, it's a magic book from a library, and it dumps the kids into adventures vaguely reminiscent of other books, when it doesn't simply borrow the characters from one entirely. There's some clever turns to the stories-beware...more
Even the premise is a riff on Five Children and It, where five kids take turns getting wishes from an unreliable source. In this case, it's a magic book from a library, and it dumps the kids into adventures vaguely reminiscent of other books, when it doesn't simply borrow the characters from one entirely. There's some clever turns to the stories-beware...more
After the unfortunate digressions of Magic or Not? and The Well-Wishers, Eager returns to his classic form with this story of five children and a magical library book. (In an early part of the story, one of the children expresses his disgust for a book that sounds like it should be about magic, but is "just about this boy that learns to get along with these other people by being friendly and stuff," which expresses my opinion of his two previous books and made me wonder if he was reevaluating hi...more
"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...more
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...more
Dec 28, 2012
Elisabeth
marked it as noah-s-books
** All books are magic, but some are more magical than others. When Susan
opens a strange library book, she discovers it is about her and her
friends, leading up to the moment when she opened the book. Beyond that,
the pages are blank... waiting for the children to wish the book full
of adventures.
Fredericka asks for wizards and beasties, and a dragon carries her off.
Susan journeys to the world of Half Magic, and finds that mixing magic
creates trouble -- far too much to deal with before the b
I read Half-Magic this summer, and, similarly, this was a fantastic little story of a group of friends and siblings that have magical adventures. Like Half-Magic, I love that the magic doesn't always work the way they want it to; it's a great lesson in being careful what you wish for and that power is dangerous and must be dealt with carefully. Each wish may create it's own separate magical adventure, but the story as a whole drives at one solid point. Though the magical plotline is all fantasy,...more
Adriana and I both enjoyed this story of bookish magic, although not as much as Half Magic. Five children check out a magic book from the library and slowly uncover the rules of it. The children go off to Oz, meet up with the little girl from the end of Half Magic, and have a Little House on the Prairie sort of adventure. It was nice that Adriana actually has heard all those stories. The language was sometimes a little beyond Adriana, but I think that's good for her, and she does seem to be able...more
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 with me.
So it's probably not a surprise that this is by far not my favourite Eager book. That spot would have to be held for The Knight's Castle or The Time Garden. And it's not the famil(ies) that t...more
So it's probably not a surprise that this is by far not my favourite Eager book. That spot would have to be held for The Knight's Castle or The Time Garden. And it's not the famil(ies) that t...more
I love the Edward Eager YA books. As it says on the back of the book, “All books are magic, but some are more magical than others.” They are innocent, fun, and really make you remember a time when children were children, and didn’t spend their lives connected to a screen. After checking out an old book from the library Susan and her friends find that it’s about them. Only the last few pages are blank, ready to be filled with wishes.
Thoroughly enjoyable. I've been wanting to read Edward Eager for a while now, came across this at my local library, finished it in an hour or so, and really quite liked it. (And it used the word "minikin", which I've been dying to see used in context for months.) A quick, pleasant read. :)
I think if I'd read this as a kid, I would have read it into pieces. Bit of a boring start, so I almost didn't read it now, but by chapter two I was sold. I think the Little House/prairie blizzard adventure was my favorite, but I loved them all.
For me, this was just "ok". Sort of like a clip-show when you see cameos of previous episodes paraded across the screen for 28 minutes. It felt a bit like Mr Eager was scraping the bottom of the barrel with this story. It just wasn't as fun to read as some of his other stories.
Feb 05, 2012
Carin
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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"The best kind of book," said Barnaby, "is a magic book."
Well said, Barnaby! AND a magic book about children who find adventures in their local library, written by an author from my hometown, is an extra bonus.
Well said, Barnaby! AND a magic book about children who find adventures in their local library, written by an author from my hometown, is an extra bonus.
Great book to read with young children. One of many books by Edward Eager that each are centered on magic happening to ordinary kids. A good amount of literary themes and the kids in the books are realistic.
Similar in tone and style to Edward Eager's Half Magic. A quick fun read but not so memorable for me. Perhaps kids can appreciate it more? I like the references to other kids' books in the story, e.g., Oz, Nesbit ,etc.
This is the only book of the series that I'm pretty sure I've never read before. For some reason we didn't have it when I was little and I guess I never got it from the library or anywhere else (which is weird), though I remember there being an excerpt from it in our reading textbook when I was in elementary school.
Because I didn't read it as a child, it doesn't carry the same nostalgia as the others in the series for me, but it's still great, and a wonderful ending to the series as well, leavi...more
Because I didn't read it as a child, it doesn't carry the same nostalgia as the others in the series for me, but it's still great, and a wonderful ending to the series as well, leavi...more
Fun read, but not the best written book in the world. Some parts a little slow and predictable, but kids would probably enjoy. Older book, so they may not relate to all of it as well.
A book about books, you say? Fantastic. Some children find a magic book at the library and have adventures based on other books including another Edward Eager book. Loved it!
Edward Eager was my favorite author until 3rd grade, when I started branching out. I still like to read these books in an hour or so, though.
A perfect ending to this magical series! I love old classics like these- published so long ago, yet timeless in message. The books are so clever and fun; they made for a perfect read-aloud bedtime story that our entire family enjoyed.
this is about 5 kids who get a book from the libray that is about them. They have to finish the story.
I wanted a book to entertain myself for an hour or two and Seven-Day Magic definitely filled that desire.
Read this along with several other Edward Eager books this last summer as bedtime stories with my soon
Girls really like this book. It's a sign that they are really into it if they groan and beg for more at the end of a reading session.
Not as good as Half Magic, Magic By the Lake or The Time Garden, but Edward Eager is always good.
Anyone who loved Oz, the Little House series, or Edward Eager's own Half Magic will adore this! I don't want to give away the magic, but I promise you, this is a kids' book that book lovers of all ages will want to read over and over again.
A great way to end the series--more magical adventures for some realistic kids. This was a great series that I plan to share with my kids, but probably not pick up again until that point.
Rating: G.
Rating: G.
read with Blake--also read it as a kid
Another great read by a great author.
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Eager was born in and grew up in Toledo, Ohio and attended Harvard University class of 1935. After graduation, he moved to New York City, where he lived for 14 years before moving to Connecticut. He married Jane Eberly in 1938 and they had a son, Fritz.
Eager was a childhood fan of L. Frank Baum's Oz series, and started writing children's books when he could not find stories he wanted to read to h...more
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Eager was a childhood fan of L. Frank Baum's Oz series, and started writing children's books when he could not find stories he wanted to read to h...more
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“The best kind of book," said Barnaby, "is a magic book."
"Naturally," said John.”
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