The time garden

As a young child, Edward Eager was my favorite author. There was a lovely shelf of Edward Eager books in my school library, and I couldn't wait each week to pick a new one. This was one of the weaker ones in the series, I thought. Still I couldn't resist reading this book again when I found a copy in my Little Library this week.

It's the story of two sets of cousins, each set the children of one of the original four children in Half Magic, now, of course, adults. They go to stay with an elderly woman by the seashore and meet a frog in a magical thyme garden. The children learn they can travel through time with the thyme. (Clever, right?)

It will never be my favorite Edward Eager, but I did find I enjoyed it a little better this time.