N. M. Bodecker
(1922 - 1988)
Niels Mogens Bodecker is best-known as the illustrator of Edward Eager’s wildly entertaining ‘magic’ novels (including Magic or Not, Half Magic, The Time Garden, Magic by the Lake, Knight’s Castle and others).
Bibliography
Songberd’s Grove (1957)
A group of children resist a gang that is destroying their neighborhood.
Sylvester the Mouse with the Musical Ear (1961)
Uprooted from his home by developers, Sylvester finds a new home in a guitar.
The Time Garden (1958)
While spending the summer in a house by the sea, four cousins, Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack, discover a bank of wild thyme whose magic propels them on a series of adventures back and forth through time.
Read online at archive.org.
Water Pennies and Other Poems (1991)
A collection of poems, chiefly about bugs.
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A Week of Lullabies (1988)
An anthology of lullabies and bedtime poems grouped by days of the week.
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The Well-Wishers (1960)
Laura, Lydia, James and Kip put the old wishing well on its mettle, and it delivers.
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The Worldly Adventures of a Teen-Age Tycoon (1971)
The story of a young man growing up in Connecticut, abridged from The Bulls and the Bees.