![]() ![]() ![]() “In the summer you could take out ten books at a time, instead of three, and keep them a month, instead of two weeks. Half Magic opens on a Saturday, which is library day for these children and, even better, it’s summer time. Nesbit’s stories were “surely the most wonderful books in the world” and they’d read every one. ![]() Nesbit’s The Enchanted Castle countless times and found it out all those times as well.Į. But I’m sure you understand all of those different kinds of disappointment.Ĭertainly Jane and Mark and Katharine and Martha understood all-too-well. Whether that was because the book I’d wanted wasn’t there, or whether because the book I had borrowed instead wasn’t much fun, or whether because the book might’ve been fine except that it wasn’t about Jane, Mark, Katharine and Martha. I do know that I borrowed some of them, too, when Half Magic was on loan to some other magic-loving child, but all that I remember for certain was my disappointment. Countless times, I borrowed the school library’s copy of this book but, to be honest, I don’t remember which, if any, of its sequels I read. ![]()
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