| And the fact that it was a playhouse, and small like the children, made it seem even more like a special fire that was planned just for them | It was a playhouse in the backyard, the fanciest playhouse the children had ever seen, two stories high and with dormer windows |
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| I didn't think to give them to my children when they were younger they are in their late teens now , so I have no direct knowledge of whether current day children would enjoy them enough to put aside computer games and cable television |
" They were all talking at once now.
29| But this summer the rule was changed | Next month he would take them back and try again |
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| If Half Magic is indicative of his bedside manner, he must have been a very good doctor indeed | He's first respectful of their mother,then falls more and more in love as the book goes on |
It was the first long chapter-book I remember reading.
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