Georgie and the Magician

Georgie, the gentle little New England ghost whose adventures are set out in thirteen picture-books by Robert Bright, here lends a hand when Mr. Whittaker - whose house he haunts - volunteers to perform magic tricks at a local fund-raising event, but is unable to conjure anything but a mothball. Fortunately, Georgie and his friends, Herman the cat and Miss Oliver the owl, know just what to do to make Mr. Whittaker's part of the show a success!

Although it is not the third Georgie book to be published, Georgie and the Magician is the third I have read, and like Georgie to the Rescue (read at the same time), I found it an engaging tale of friendship and magical doings, with black-and-white illustrations that had an old-fashioned charm. show more Young readers who enjoy tales of spooks and witches, without the scares, will warm to this little spirit! show less

Georgie was a ghost that lived in Mr. Whitakers attic. One night the barn burned down. Mr. Whitaker was going to do a benefit to build his barn back. Georgie and Mrs. Oliver the owl and Herman the cat knew Mr. Whitaker would have to help Mr. Whitaker be a magician. He was a great success but he never knew how he was able to do his magic. This story makes a ghost, something that is usually a scary thing for a child, become not scary.