Wizards : Stories of Mischief, Magic and Mayhem

by Willis, Jennifer Schwamm

• ISBN13: 9781560253204
• ISBN10: 1560253207
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-11
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

Before the kids sit down at the computer or turn on the television, hand them Wizards, where they can spend the night next door to a man-eating troll, accompany a boy on his first day at wizard school, or take a ride on the North Wind. The Harry Potter series has created a hunger for great fantasy literature amongst children and their parents, many of whom have never read such masters of the medium as C. S. Lewis, T. H. White, Roald Dahl, or E. Nesbit. Now the editors of the Adrenaline series have moved into a new genre with the same attention to great stories, great characters, and great writing that has made Adrenaline the most successful series of its kind. In addition to the above writers, Wizards draws upon a rich load of forgotten classics (without which there would be no Harry Potter) by such authors as Jane Yolen, George MacDonald, Frances Hodgson Burnett, A. Philippa Pearce, Nicholas Stuart Gray, John Bellairs, and Edward Eager.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
The Once and Future King	1	(14)
T.H. White
The Witches	15	(20)
Roald Dahl
Wizard's Hall	35	(20)
Jane Yolen
Five Children and It	55	(18)
E. Nesbit
The Troll	73	(14)
T.H. White
The Snow Queen	87	(12)
Hans Christian Andersen
Amy Ehrlich
from Tom's Midnight Garden	99	(12)
Philippa Pearce
The Secret Garden	111	(24)
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Beowulf	135	(14)
Seamus Heaney
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	149	(12)
C.S. Lewis
At The Back of the North Wind	161	(32)
George Macdonald
Half Magic	193	(16)
Edward Eager
The Nose	209	(28)
Nikolai Gogol
A Jew of Persia	237	(18)
Mark Helprin
The Book of Beasts	255	(14)
E. Nesbit
The Odyssey of Homer	269	(18)
Allen Mandelbaum
A Wizard of Earthsea	287	(14)
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Velveteen Rabbit	301	(12)
Margery Williams
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	313	(8)
Lewis Carroll
Acknowledgements	321	(2)
Bibliography	323