Any Which Wall - Rambling Readers

electronic resource

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2009 by Random House Children's Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-375-85383-8
OCLC Number:: 465219370

(1 review)

Four kids, a mysterious wall, and a good helping of common magic!If you had a magic wall that could take you to any place and any time, where would you go? Would you want to visit castles and desert islands? Would you want to meet famous wizards, terrible pirates, beautiful queens, and dastardly outlaws? If so, then you are just like Henry and Emma, and Roy and Susan--and you will probably like this story a lot. In fact, you might even wish something similar would happen to you!In Any Which Wall, author Laurel Snyder proves that you don't have to be an orphan, know a dragon, or even be a child to get a taste of magic. You just have to keep your mind open and willing to let it happen. And when you do find magic (like Henry, Emma, Roy, and Susan), you might be surprised that along with …

Four kids, a mysterious wall, and a good helping of common magic!If you had a magic wall that could take you to any place and any time, where would you go? Would you want to visit castles and desert islands? Would you want to meet famous wizards, terrible pirates, beautiful queens, and dastardly outlaws? If so, then you are just like Henry and Emma, and Roy and Susan--and you will probably like this story a lot. In fact, you might even wish something similar would happen to you!In Any Which Wall, author Laurel Snyder proves that you don't have to be an orphan, know a dragon, or even be a child to get a taste of magic. You just have to keep your mind open and willing to let it happen. And when you do find magic (like Henry, Emma, Roy, and Susan), you might be surprised that along with all the fun, you also find out new things about your friends, your family, and maybe even a little bit about who you really want to be.From the Hardcover edition.

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crabbygirl reviewed Any which wall by Laurel Snyder

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4 stars

[guessing at the star rating / mining my old FB notes now that they are almost impossible to find]

a magic wall transport 4 children to different worlds and adventures. so this could easily be seen as a magic-treehouse-wanna-be, but the author is clever enough to make the character development just as important as the adventures. kids used to being bossed around have to learn to think for themselves. a girl on the precipice between childhood and teenagehood mourns putting her books and dolls away too soon... this book seems an allegory of that - allowing your preteen to indulge themselves in last bit of magic, and then maybe seeing that magic can still exist for older people - it's just a different form.