The "Barnaby the wanderer" chapter is much more philosophical than anything else of Eager's that I've read. We actually tried to read Knight's Castle a few months back, but had to give up, because T was confused by and uninterested in all the Ivanhoe references - something I didn't mind as a child despite not having read Ivanhoe (or seen the movie, as the kids do in that book).ġ. A potential reader of this book would certainly do well to be familiar with those books. So, Tommy's frustrations aside, I still came away from the book with a certain satisfaction that I do seem to be producing a well-read child (even though he's not reading any of these on his own). Later on, we were briefly excited when The 13 Clocks got mentioned.
Then he got frustrated, because the chapters stopped being about books so much, and the children never visited the world of The Hobbit, which he'd been desperately hoping for, despite one of the characters suggesting it as a possibility. So it was exciting to him, that the first magical adventure referenced the Oz books, the second Half Magic and the third the Little House books, all of which he's somewhat familiar with. Tommy was enthusiastic, especially at first, because he has lately been really into spotting "references" in books and TV shows (this largely brought about by his current fixation with The Simpsons). 1999 (orig.I know I read this as a child, but it must have been only once, because so much of it seemed fresh and new to me.
Although written nearly forty years ago, Seven-Day Magic has a timeless feel, even if the adventures seem a bit tame by modern standards. The children return the book to the library and wonder who will find it next. Disaster almost strikes again when the friends wish themselves at a television rehearsal and it nearly costs one of their fathers his job on a show. Another adventure starts when the children are transported back in time with grandmother and nearly perish in a blizzard. Along their way, the children meet a dragon, a wizard, and the baby and little girl from Half Magic, another Eager book. Five children discover a mysterious red book at the library and eventually they discover that it's writing the story of their own wishful adventures-a story they make up as they go, and then witness coming to life in the red book's pages. However, Seven- Day Magic can just about stoop to the challenge. It's hard for any book with magic in it not to pale next to the Harry Potter phenomenon.
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