Magic Elizabeth: A Beloved Classic with Brand-New Full-Color Artwork (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781685558017)

Vendor: Norma Kassirer
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Format: Paperback
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Magic Elizabeth: A Beloved Classic with Brand-New Full-Color Artwork

$15.99

Magic Elizabeth: A Beloved Classic with Brand-New Full-Color Artwork

$15.99
Format: Paperback
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A beloved middle-grade fantasy classic returns in a new edition, as eight-year-old Sally steps through an attic mirror into another time to search for a long-lost doll, now featuring beautiful new full-color illustrations.

When Sally is sent to spend the summer in a creaky old house with her elderly Aunt Sarah and a decidedly unfriendly cat, she expects weeks of boredom and loneliness. Everything changes when she discovers a mysterious painting of a little girl holding a doll and learns that the doll vanished long ago. Drawn by curiosity, Sally ventures into the attic, where an old mirror seems to open a doorway into another time and a story waiting to be finished.

First published in 1966, Magic Elizabeth quickly became a treasured favorite, earning a place in The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children and selling nearly one million copies in its Scholastic edition. Readers have cherished the novel for generations for its gentle magic, emotional warmth, and the way it blends mystery and fantasy with themes of friendship, empathy, and care.

Now available in a beautifully refreshed edition, this classic story is enhanced with exquisite new full-color illustrations, inviting a new generation of readers into its timeless world of wonder. Perfect for independent reading or sharing aloud, Magic Elizabeth remains a moving reminder that imagination, kindness, and love can travel across time.

Author: Norma Kassirer
ISBN-10: 1685558011
ISBN-13: 9781685558017
Publisher: Collective Book Studio
Language: English
Published: 10/06/2026
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
By Norma Kassirer
By Norma Kassirer
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Norma Kassirer, writer and artist, became best known for her middle-grade children's classic Magic Elizabeth, first published in 1966 and featured in Eden Ross Lipson's New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children. Another middle-grade novel, The Doll Snatchers, was published in 1969. In addition, Norma was the author of numerous books and short stories for adults. Norma's daughter Sue Kassirer was thrilled to recently rediscover the original manuscript for The Knitting Witch, a story she had loved as a child. Wanting to share it with today's children, Sue proceeded to edit and gently update the story, drawing on her many years of experience as a children's book editor at Simon & Schuster, The Viking Press, Random House, and Harper Collins.

Mark Richardson is a freelance illustrator working primarily in watercolor and ink. His illustrations mostly focus on picturing fictional subjects within children's literature. He also draws inspiration from the natural world and is engaged in an ongoing series of portraits of the birds that pass through his own property in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, where he maintains a studio and shares a home and garden with his wife, Barbara. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Mark enjoys painting large landscapes that reflect upon his travels. He is also a bookbinder. Many of his artworks find their way into the hand-bound books that he produces in limited quantities from his studio.

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