Naturally this causes some hilarious problems, but it finally leads the family to greater happiness, with a new father and a more enjoyable summer in sight. So anything you want, you had better wish for twice as much. So the four siblings–Jane, Mark, Katherine, and Martha–are idly wondering what to do with their summer vacation, when they come across a magical talisman (easily mistaken for a nickel) which grants wishes by halves. Only in this story, the children don’t have a father, and their mother is too busy to take them out in the country for the summer, and on top of everything else, they live in Toledo, Ohio, sometime in the 1920s (the silent film era, anyway), so it isn’t quite the aristocratic British fantasy typical of E. Nesbit ( Five Children and It, etc.), he creates a similar style of fantasy/fairy-tale, starring a winning family of children. Purchase hereĮager was a playwright and lyricist, who turned to writing children’s books in order to have something to read to his son.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |