Each of the characters has their magical adventure fitting their interest and need. What captured me with this fantasy, were the various voices of the four children that still each stand out with individuality and age range.
As the story progresses each child is able to use the half magic power for an adventure they want to go on and various issues and problems arise. They discover that the talisman grants wishes, but only half way, so they have to make very careful double wishes. They don’t realize the powerful magic at first and accidentally set something on fire in addition to having their mother go on an accidental adventure and making their cat partially talk. Half Magic begins with siblings discussing the possibility of magic and one of the children finding a coin that turns out to be a magical talisman. So when I read Edward Eager’s Half Magic later in life, it threw me back to those childhood days with my favorite book treasures. I’ve always enjoyed reading books that have family members adventuring together, normally they were realistic fiction. Reading it the first time, I was immediately captured by children who made a two-mile visit to the library to check out new books. I discovered one wonderful fantasy when I became a teacher that I’m a bit of a fanatic about now: Half Magic by Edward Eager.
Sometimes, I wondered if I missed some terrific fantasy books while I grew up with my personal focus on reading realistic fiction and mysteries.
I loved books with a passion, eating up every single book I could read by Noel Streatfield to Elizabeth Enright to Sydney Taylor to L.M. My parents constantly demonstrated their love of books and shared it with me, I’m quite grateful for that since it compelled me towards my dream job. When I was growing up, I was surrounded by books and additionally storytelling and poetry recited through the years. I love being a teacher librarian as I can pass that passion on to hundreds of children yearly. When I read one book and enjoy it, I tend to try to read everything else by the author whether a series or single titles.
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