Edward McMaken Eager (June 20, 1911 – October 23, 1964) was an American lyricist, dramatist, and writer of children's fiction.
[4] Eager was a childhood fan of L. Frank Baum's Oz series, and started writing children's books when he could not find stories he wanted to read to his own young son.
She keeps house faithfully, dusting the family portraits and baking a bag pudding for her solitary Christmas dinner.
The series name may date from the 2000 boxed set of books 1–4, Edward Eager's Tales of Magic (Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classic; ISBN 0-15-202546-4).
A dull summer is improved when Katharine, Mark, Jane and Martha find a magical coin-like talisman.
Anthony Boucher, comparing the novel to Nesbit, described it as "gay and charming, yet rigidly governed fantasy in the Unknown manner.
Their summer vacation is enlivened by an entire magic lake, channeled through a talking, and somewhat grumpy, box turtle.
They are stranded on a desert island, visit Ali-Baba's cave, and end up rescued by some children the reader sees in the next book.
Laura, James, and their wonderful new neighbors, Kip and Lydia, wish up some summer adventures when the well in their new yard is more than they imagined.
Barnaby, John, Susan, Abbie and Fredericka check out a tattered book from the library for seven days.
Among their adventures, the children visit the era when Laura Ingalls Wilder was a girl and John's grandmother was a school-teacher; they speculate that the time may be that of On the Banks of Plum Creek.