Tales of Magic The Time Garden, Book 4, (Paperback)

from ImperfectCJ

My kids and I continue to love Edward Eager's books. In this one, I especially enjoyed playing with the Natterjack's accent while reading aloud, and all of the time/thyme puns. I also love the eye-rolling the other kids in the story do in response to Jack's budding teenager-ness and the intersect...

from aleader

Four children travel through time with the help of a creature called a Natterjack. They visit many American historical events, including the ride of Paul Revere and the underground railroad. There are funny scenes like when the Natterjack sings Rule Britannia in a America. Readers will be interes...

from phoebesmum

Deliberately written to emulate Edith Nesbit, this features four (relatively) modern American children spending a summer in a magical garden that transports them to historical events (which they object to, as being too educational), into 'Little Women', where they are delighted not to meet Amy, a...

from antiquary

This is my original copy of The Time Garden, given me as a child. I dearly loved all the Edward Eager books, but this one especially interested me because the children (the second generation in this case) are using thyme to travel back in time and I was always interested in history. I particularl...

from kaitanya64

Four cousins find a garden that allows them to travel magically through time (by sniffing thyme). As in all of Eager's books, however, magic is unpredictable and often uncontrollable. This is a great book to read aloud with a mixed age group because the thrills and danger are not too excessive fo...