As five crippled children play games of imagining themselves in another beautiful world, one of the boys finds he can help the rest of them escape to a strange new place.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is the only book from childhood I re-read every 5 years,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Magic Meadow (Hardcover)
The Magic Meadow by Alexander Key taught me to believe that
the power of the human mind can overcome physical handicaps and
that friendship and love can conquer ills such as lonliness and
abandonment.
The story is about a ward of crippled children in a hospital doomed
for demolition. The children have grown up together in that ward, and
now face certain separation from one another. Then, one night, one of
the children plays what he calls "the traveling game" and uses his mind
to teleport himself to a beautiful place with warm sunshine, a meadow of
wildflowers, and where he has no physical infirmity. When he returns to
his hospital bed, the only proof of his experience is a small daisy
clinging to his pajamas.
With the help of a compassionate nurse, the children move their beds close
together at night and link hands to take more "travelers." Learning where
the children go, the dangers that lurk in an unknown time and place
to these vulnerable kids makes it a difficult story to put down. The reader
is left wondering if teleportation and time travel truly is possible,
and if it is, how and where would you go? I highly recommend this story to
both boys and girls ages 9 and up.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The book i have never forgotten...,
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This review is from: The Magic Meadow (Hardcover)
This book has affected me in the most incredible way. I read and reread this book all through school. It is simply the most magical, amazing book. Magic Meadow helped me believe that anything is possible and that friendship is an important and powerful force. I am haunted by images from this book and i am thankful for having read it at such a young age so many years ago.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful!,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Magic Meadow (Hardcover)
I read this book several years ago, and then again, and then again, and then again.... I loved the ideas included, the suspense about what the children's fate would be (would they manage to escape to their secret location? Would all of them make it?), and the characters. The story has a sort of bittersweet joy at the end, perhaps because it both shows how much humans can screw up and what they could potentially reach. My only annoyance was at the end, which to me seemed to stop too suddenly and left readers hanging (I won't explain, for those who haven't read the book). Definitely recommended!
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