The Time Garden by Edward Eager, N. M. Bodecker Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Time Garden
Book Review: Terrific!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a GREAT book! I read it about 5 months ago and still remember it clearly! UNFORGETABLE!!!!!
Book Review: The title is just the beginning...
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this book as a child, and still do as an adult. I've created a thyme garden (complete with Natterjack and sundial) in my own yard in homage. The play on words in the title is a mere hint of the delights to be found inside, and I do wish Mr. Eager had lived to write more of his utterly charming books. I recently loaned this to an adult friend with some trepidation, but she LOVED it, and requested everything by Mr. Eager I own. These books can be enjoyed by both adults and children and what higher praise for a children's book is there?
Travelling in time with the four children from Knight's Castle, the reader visits a house in the Underground Railroad, the March family from Little Women and the courts of Elizabethan and Victorian England, as well as a side trip that readers of Half Magic will recognize. As always, the characters have unexpected quirks, and the children get themselves into some pretty bad messes, only to be rescued by the venerable old Natterjack who grumbles at the effort, but always comes through. Funny, literate and enchanting, this book should appeal to everyone!
Book Review: Time and Time Again
Summary: 5 Stars
Edward Eager continues to entertain decades after his death through his books about ordinary children who experience magic. THE TIME GARDEN was always one of my favorites (oh, okay, I admit it - I like all of Edward Eager's books and can't really pick a favorite). Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack encounter time traveling at its finest when they are exiled to spend the summer with old Mrs. Whiton. An interesting note, their mothers were two of the children in HALF MAGIC and MAGIC BY THE LAKE also by Eager. A bank of wild thyme in the garden opens doors to the past, present and future for these four delightful children. If it's imagination you are looking for, look no further. Edward Eager's books are witty and wild and funny. There is a certain degree of sophistication in his style of writing that makes these stories interesting even for the mature reader.Book Review: You'll never look at thyme the same way again
Summary: 5 Stars
In this sequel to Knight's Castle, the four kids - Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack - are together again, this time staying at the house of a distant relative, Mrs. Whiton. Mrs. Whiton just happens to have a rather extraordinary garden, which includes a sundial (inscribed "Anything can happen...when you've all the time in the world"), every variety of thyme known to man (except common), and a Natterjack. Naturally, time travel adventures ensue.The Natterjack is a character reminiscent of the Psammead in E. Nesbit's The Five Children and It - he's an inherently magical creature with a great deal of power and the potential for good advice, but also a difficult personality with an ego and a temper. He's also a frog. And he gets the children into no end of trouble - like when he sings "Rule Britannia" in an American pub during the Revolution.
And Roger, Ann, and Eliza are just as nifty as they were in Knight's Castle. Jack, however, features rather less in The Time Garden, as he's plunged into the throes of adolescence and spends most of his time making phone calls. (Isn't it good to know that some things never change?)
The children, with the help of a little thyme, visit the ride of Paul Revere (with singing Natterjack), a stop on the Underground Railroad, and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, among other adventures.
The book is fun, and funny, and you will have new feelings for thyme when you're finished with it. Lots of children would enjoy this book, and those adults who like children's literature will love The Time Garden.
Book Review: fabulous fantastic
Summary: 5 Stars
there was a thyme garden and the children found out it was magic. It was great and adventurous.Fun. The childrens guide was called the Natterjack. There were different sorts of thyme plants and every time they picked one they went to another time!
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