This is an American classic about four children who are sent to stay with an elderly friend of their parents. They are sure they're in for a boring summer, until they discover that the thyme in the herb garden is magic. The children are transported to the American Civil War, Victorian England, and even end up meeting their own parents on one of the magical adventures they had when they were children.

 

This is volume 4 in Magic Tales .

There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Oxford University Press .

Edward Eager (1911-1964) worked primarily as a playwright and lyricist. It wasn't until 1951, while searching for books to read to his young son, that he began writing children's stories. Quentin Blake is the internationally acclaimed illustrator of more than two hundred award-winning books, including several classics by Roald Dahl. He lives in London.