Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes. Edward Eager's hilarious and heartwarming Half Magic has been working wizardry on young readers for fifty years. To celebrate the golden anniversary of this enduringly popular story, a deluxe edition of the book has been created. It...

"Lucy Young is twenty-six and tired. Tired of fetching coffees for senior TV producers, sick of going on disastrous dates, and done with living in a damp flat with roommates who never buy toilet roll. After another disappointing date, Lucy stumbles upon a wishing machine. Pushing a coin into the slot, Lucy closes her eyes and wishes with all her might: Please, let me skip to the good part of my life. When she wakes the next morning to a handsome man,...

"A red oak tree and a crow help their human neighbors work out their differences"-- An old red oak tree tells how he and his crow friend, Bongo, help their human neighbors get along after a threat against an immigrant family is carved into the tree's trunk.

After a day of watching his strongest sandcastles washed away by a sea that refuses to obey him, Jack wishes for a real castle in which he is king, and that night his wishes come true.

A little boy gets everything he asks for on Yes Day, a special day that only comes once a year.

When Marvin Redpost's new friend Casey shares with him her magic crystal that can make wishes come true, things get out of control.

In simple text and pictures, the author and illustrator create a compendium of small daily moments.

A group of kids on holiday with their parents in Cornwall, England meets a magical creature (voiced by Michael Caine) on the beach with the power to grant wishes.

Every wish is fulfilled on the First of Octember.

A collection of three novellas explores what happens when three friends make wishes at a pizzeria and get more than they asked for.