Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site caip.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!caip!SIGEL%umass-cs.csnet From: SIGEL%umass-cs.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Story Request Answered (Edward Eager) Message-ID: <234@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 03:12:18 EST Article-I.D.: caip.234 Posted: Sun Oct 27 03:12:18 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 21:26:12 EST Sender: daemon@caip.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 24 From: Andrew Sigel> infinet!cgf@topaz.rutgers.edu (Chris Faylor) > When I was in the third grade (about 24 years ago) I read a book > that sort of got me started on science fiction/fantasy. It involved > some kids who found an old coin which granted them wishes... sort > of. The coin was so old that they had to wish for everything twice > to get a complete wish, otherwise they only got half of what they > wished for. I believe the book you are referring to is HALF MAGIC by Edward Eager. Eager wrote a number of books very similar in tone about children and magic, much in the E. Nesbit tradition, but that I like better than Nesbit. It may very well be in print -- I noticed about a month back that a new paperback printing was being made of two Eager titles, and HALF MAGIC may have been one of them. It has been a while since I've read Eager, but I think the children in HALF MAGIC show up in MAGIC BY THE LAKE; there are some cross-overs, and you will surely want to read more of his books. I am sure the book will age well for you; I didn't read it for the first time until I was 25. Andrew Sigel