Theodora, a wyvern enthusiast spending summer vacation with her nanny (while her zoologist dad is away), gets mixed up in ample madcap magic…the novel thrives on humor and cinematically vivid prose. Having honed her skills on the Spellkey trilogy, Downer [puts] a freshly bewitching spin on the Boston we thought we knew.
—The New York Times

Read the full review of Hatching Magic which appeared in the June 22, 2003 issue of The New York Times Book Review.

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"The characters in this genial summer read are always intriguing, whether the courtly Wizard of Harvard Square, Iain Merlin O'Shea; Theodora's housekeeper-with-a-past; or the wyvern herself, who develops a taste for chocolate at the Necco factory near MIT. The plot episodes flow with inventiveness and a playful sense of humor, and all comes together in the magical showdown at the climax, when Theodora finds her own wizardly inheritance-a discovery much more satisfying than any commercially packaged fantasy."
—The Horn Book

"A delightful book . . . clearly aimed at a younger audience, but there is enough substance to satisfy older fantasy readers looking for a lighthearted (but not lite) adventure." —www.fables.org

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