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| M is for Magic (Playaway Edition) | 
 enlarge | Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Playaway
Category: Book
Buy New: $54.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Media: Misc. Supplies
Edition: Unabridged
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 4.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 1605145270
EAN: 9781605145273
ASIN: 1605145270
Publication Date: January 15, 2008
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Product Description
Stories to delight, enchant, and surprise you. Bestselling author and master storyteller Neil Gaiman here presents a breathtaking collection of tales that may chill or amuse readers—but always embrace the unexpected: - A teenage boy who has trouble talking to girls finds himself at a rather unusual party.
- A sinister jack-in-the-box haunts the lives of the children who owned it.
- A boy raised in a graveyard makes a discovery and confronts the much more troubling world of the living.
- A stray cat fights a nightly battle to protect his adopted family from a terrible evil.
These eleven stories illuminate the real and the fantastic, and will be welcomed with great joy by Neil Gaiman's many fans as well as by readers coming to his work for the first time.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 Disappointing. July 17, 2007
33 out of 41 found this review helpful
I was very disappointed when I bought this book. I thought it would be a new collection of short stories by Gaiman, but it turns out it's just a compilation of select stories from FRAGILE THINGS and SMOKE AND MIRRORS.
Waste of money.
 It's fine, but there's a problem... July 11, 2007
17 out of 22 found this review helpful
M is for Magic is a fine book, and it'd might even be great- except that most of this material was previously published in Fragile Things. So, if you have Fragile Things and liked it, carefully check out M is for Magic before buying it. You may be a big enough fan to want it anyway, or you may want to wait for the softcover.
 magic time September 23, 2007
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
Neil Gaiman, the author of the novel Stardust (which was made into a great film with Robert De Niro and Claire Danes) and the Sandman stories /graphic novels from DC Comics, is a natural storyteller. He is also a noted children author with a special talent to talk to children and adults with the sense of wonder of a child. He also has a children's audio collection of his picture books.
Now to this current audio collection, these are sort of stories you would hear when you were ten and around a summer campfire. The narrative talent of Gaiman draws the listener in and keeps you in. You don't care if these tales are for children, young adults or adults, he makes all these PG type stories great.
What makes this collection great is good storytelling. Like Ray Bradbury's S is for Space, which he notes in his audio forward, Gaiman uses simple ideas and meshes them into mini horror or thriller tales . . . and keeps you interested!
It is worth your time to get this collection for your family. When you do, get one for the adults and one for the kids
 Good book but watch out for repeats June 29, 2007
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
For some reason that I can't figure out, Gaiman decided to include "October in the Chair" and "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" in this book, when both were JUST included in Fragile Things last year. Did he run out of stories so quickly?? I would have liked to see more new stories.
 Content inappropriate for children November 29, 2007
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
What the book jacket and these publisher's reviews do not tell you is that there is adult content in these books. It is not just about magic and cats and fantasy. There's characters in a graveyard discussing suicide as a way to the next existence for people who are not happy. There's a boy who doesnt want eaten by a troll until he has had the experience of getting laid (quote) and later in the story he gets laid - lots - in his London apartment til his wife finds out and leaves him. There's underage drinking at a party with girls from another world; one boy brings a bottle he took from home and the other boy envies him when he goes upstairs to a bedroom with a girl. Why did Harper Collins think this was material for ten year olds? Looks exploitative to me.
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