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Work InformationThe Magician's Castle by Mary Cunningham
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I read The Magician’s Castle written by Mary Cunningham to my 10 year old niece and she immediately asked for the rest of the books in the series. It was a fun, easy read filled with magic and time travel, focusing on the theme of friendship. It taught both of us a fair amount about the 1914 period of life and provided an enjoyable afternoon reading and laughing and with my niece. ( ) Cynthia's Attic: The Magician's Castle is the fourth in a series of children's books by author, Mary Cunningham. It is the story of two twelve-year-old girls who travel through time with the aid of an old trunk. It is difficult for me to review this book because I am definitely not in the target audience. As an older reader (a much older reader), I can honestly say I didn't hate the book but i can't say I loved it either. Part of the problem, for me, was that it frequently refers to the previous books in the series, none of which I have read so I was a bit lost, especially at the beginning. I also felt that things seemed to happen a little too conveniently in the story: they didn't always need the trunk to travel, characters appeared seemingly out of thin air to help them, and problems were a little too easily resolved. However, I suspect that, if i were nine years old, I would have enjoyed this book as long as I had read the rest of the series. it is fast paced and the heroines are likable. There are a couple of scary scenes but nothing too frightening for the younger reader. I also liked the fact that Cunningham didn't 'dumb down' the vocabulary or feel the need to explain things like record players, something that many in her young audience have probably never seen. The Magician's Castle is not the kind of book that would appeal to adults as well as children like, for example, The Chronicles of Narnia but i would definitely recommend it for children (both girls and boys) between the ages of, say, 7 and 11. no reviews | add a review
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