Edgar Eager, Yes!

From this week’s NYT’sBy the Book with Laura Lippman:

Sell us on your favorite overlooked or underappreciated writer.

Edward Eager wrote a series of children’s books that are in danger of being forgotten. But they’re divine, stories about ordinary kids who stumble on magical things — a coin, a lake, a book, a thyme garden, a well. The magic changes them, they try to change the magic, the magic moves on. Great female characters, too — strong, smart, capable, not killjoys. “Half Magic” is his mas...