Edward Eager's Half Magic (1954) Illus. N.M. Bodecker Harcourt Brace & Company, 1985 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. I do know that I borrowed some of them, too, when
Mary Norton's The Borrowers (1953) Illus. Beth and Joe Krush Harcourt Young Classics, 1998 Beyond the dark passages beneath the floor. Past the strong gates, barred with safety pins, that only Pod knows how to open. There: upstairs. There: the potential to be seen...by people. Arrietty has never known of
Beverly Cleary's Ramona the Pest (1968) Illus. Louis Darling Readers first catch a glimpse of Ramona Quimby when she is very small, in the Henry Huggins series, but her first main appearance is in Beezus and Ramona. I was not, however, a Beezus fan. I was a Ramona fan. I
Margaret Laurence's The Olden Days Coat (1979) Illus. Muriel Wood Tundra Books, 1998 Every time I read this book I think "surely this time I won't cry", but I always do. And it's not because this is a sad story, but there is something so overwhelmingly touching about it, that
Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy Tacy (1940) Illus. Lois Lenski Harper Collins, 1968 I first met Betsy, Tacy and Tib when I was nine or ten, but I didn't know them as well as I might have. I kept re-reading the third and fourth volumes of the series and never filled
