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Edward Eager
(1911 - 1964)
Edward McMaken Eager was an American lyricist, playwright, and author of books for children. Eager’s works for children were distinctive in their use of the theme of magic making an appearance in the lives of ordinary children - what would now be classed as contemporary fantasy.
Bibliography
Half Magic (1954)
Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes.
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Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Knight’s Castle (1956)
Four cousins, Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack, have an extraordinary summer when, after an old toy soldier comes to life, they find themselves transported back to the days of Robin Hood and Ivanhoe.
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Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Magic by the Lake (1957)
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Magic or Not? (1959)
When Laura learns the well at her new house is a wishing well, she plunges right in.
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Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Mouse Manor (1952)
Miss Myrtilla Mouse goes up to London to see the Queen and finds herself a husband.
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
Beryl Bailey-Jones
Red Head (1951)
Fritz had hair of a beautiful red,
Not auburn, or ginger, or sandy, but red.
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Seven-Day Magic (1962)
When Barnaby, John, Susan, Abbie and Fredericka open the red book, they discover it is all about themselves and the magical adventures they are about to have.
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Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
The Time Garden (1958)
While spending the summer in a house by the sea, four cousins, Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack, discover a bank of wild thyme whose magic propels them on a series of adventures back and forth through time.
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Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
The Well-Wishers (1960)
Laura, Lydia, James and Kip put the old wishing well on its mettle, and it delivers.
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Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker