When four friends return a lost key to their new neighbor Ellie Goodwin, she invites them up to explore her special attic. There are costumes galore and a magic mirror that transports the girls back in time.
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From Publishers Weekly
The inaugural title in the Magic Attic Club line of novels and dolls (see Children's Book News, June 19) opens on the day before Christmas, when the four heroines of this series notice a new neighbor-an elderly woman with eyes "as blue as the heart of a flame"-hanging a wreath on the door of her Victorian home. After meeting the woman, Eleanor Goodwin, the girls find a gold key in the snow and bring it to her. She invites them to use the key to open her attic door. Within, they find a trunk packed with elaborate dresses and costumes. After each selects an outfit to try on, all four gaze in a mirror and are transported to a home in the 1930s, where the woman who greets them calls each by name. Her family is preparing to host a Christmas party when her husband rushes through the door with their daughter, Ellie, who has fallen through the ice while skating. In chapters that would do Pollyanna proud, the friends help nurse the girl (who has "flame-blue eyes") back to health-and inject a healthy dose of holiday spirit into the household before returning to the present. Though laden with cliches and dialogue that doesn't always ring true, this light, cheerful tale moves along briskly. Illustrations not seen by PW. Four other Magic Attic titles are scheduled for simultaneous release. Ages 7-up.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Grade 3-5-These series entries threaten to do for fantasy what "The American Girl Collection" (Pleasant) has done for American history. Four girls find costumes and a mirror in a neighbor's attic. A look in the magic glass takes one or all of them on an adventure, where they stay until they look in another mirror, at which point they are returned to the attic. Secret explains the formula; if children read Heather first, they will be mystified by the sketchy writing. The friends all seem alike, because their characterizations are glued to their outsides. Alison is the jock; Keisha the African American who celebrates Kwanzaa; Megan the reader who quotes Shakespeare; Heather the Jewish ballerina wannabe. But their contributions to the conversations are all the same-an annoying mixture of pseudo-sophistication and moralistic goodness. Readers are encouraged to emulate these people: there's a postcard at the back of each book inviting them to join the club and get their own key and a free glossy catalogue from which they may order merchandise. An opportunistic, hollow package.?Carolyn Jenks, First Parish Unitarian Church, Portland, ME
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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I would reccomend this book to readers of my age and older.,
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This review is from: The Secret of the Attic (Magic Attic Club) (Hardcover)
This book was a very good way to reaveal the girls feelings. For example I read the book to find I knew exactly how they felt being transferd through the mirror,falling through the lake during an ice-skating party or just being different. I would reccomend this book to all eight year olds and older.
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Full of Magic and Fun,
By Kristy Howard "Student" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Secret of the Attic (Magic Attic Club) (Paperback)
What can be more fun than to escape through the attic to another time and place? Easy to read, fun, and similar to the American Girls, but without the history lesson.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Pleasant reading, flows smoothly,
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This review is from: The Secret of the Attic (Magic Attic Club) (Hardcover)
My daughter (6) found this to be a fairly easy to understand book (I did most of the reading). Although published for slightly older readers, my daughter understood the concepts (and she has all the Magic Attic dolls, so she acted out some of the scenes). Anyway, the book stimulated her imagination, it was a well-done introduction to the four girls and Ellie.
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