The Magic Hare [Paperback]

Lynne Reid Banks (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Collins (1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0007653522
• ISBN-13: 978-0007653522
• ASIN: B000LTH3Z0
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Lynne Reid Banks is a best-selling author for children and adults. Her classic children's novel 'The Indian in the Cupboard' has sold nearly six million copies worldwide. She was born in London in 1929 and worked as an actress, writer and TV news reporter. Lynne has written thirty books: her first, 'The L-Shaped Room', was published in 1960. She now lives in Dorset, where she continues to write. Lynne says that writing for children comes much more easily than writing for adults. Tony Ross was born in London in 1938. He has worked as an art director at an advertising agency, a graphic designer, a cartoonist, a teacher, a film maker and as a Senior Lecturer in Art at Manchester Polytechnic.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars fun and funny, April 28, 2011

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M. Heiss (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Magic Hare (Hardcover)

Barry Moser's illustrations are eye-grabbing, and they go well with these original and up-to-date animal tales. (Up-to-date, as in using witchcraft to fix a hole in the ozone layer.) Not all the stories take place in modern times, but they all have a modern sensibility to them. The funniest one is the "Hare and the Vampire." Even your big kids will like these stories.

Beautiful book - this would make a great gift for a slightly quirky family.

1.0 out of 5 stars Pictures are scary!!, April 10, 2009

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Magic Hare (An Avon Camelot Book) (Paperback)

I am six and a half years old.I started reading this book and I read up till the chapter "The Hare and The Vampire". When I looked at the picture of the vampire and I got really scared.I showed it to my mom and she got scared too! So then I closed the book and never read it ever again.Just a warning that this book is really scary.

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant writing, brilliant illustrations, March 25, 2005

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The Book Elf "The Book Elf" (San Jose, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Magic Hare (An Avon Camelot Book) (Paperback)

This is a wonderful book of fables featuring the Magic Hare. In Mrs. Banks words, he is old-fashioned, yet bang up to the minute. In his kind and conceited, clever and shy, gentle and ruthless way he brings the varied characters of this magical book to perfect solutions for their problems; all the while teaching us with joy and humor how to chase down our own resolutions. A great book to read aloud.