Books with title The Magic Shop

Product Description In The Magic a great mystery from a sacred text is revealed, and with this knowledge Rhonda Byrne takes the reader on a life-changing journey for 28 days. Step by step, day-by-day, secret teachings, revelations, and scientific law are brought together to form 28 simple practices that open the reader's eyes to a new world, and lead them to a dream life. About the Author Rhonda was born in Australia and began her career as a radio producer before moving into television production. Many of her shows won industry awards and were screened in major countries outside Australia. Rhonda's experience, background and skill in film and television production were instrumental in the creation of The Secret film. In May of 2007, she was recognized as one of the world's most influential people in TIME magazine's 'The TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World"', and shortly afterwards appeared in Forbes' The Celebrity 100 List'. Rhonda currently lives just outside Los Angeles.

Out for a walk in London one day, a father and his son, Gip, happen upon a magic shop. At Gip's urging, the two go in — and things grow more and more curious by the minute. Counters, store fixtures, and mirrors seem to move around the room, and the shopkeeper is mysterious himself. Gip is thrilled by all he sees, and his father is at first amused. But then things become stranger, even sinister, and the father is no longer sure where reality ends and illusion begins. Fantastical illustrations underscore the macabre atmosphere of the tale, making this a perfect read-aloud book for Halloween.

The Magic Toyshop is a traditional fantasy / fairy story, in the tradition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Alice in Wonderland. Gerry and her brother go to an Edwardian-period toyshop, to buy a toy as a replacement for a pet which has recently died. As a way of choosing the new companion, the toyshop owner allows the children to enter a magic land, populated with the toys which they have seen in the shop. Good is set against Evil, as the wicked Queen Matilda attempts to take control of the idyllic land of toys. There, the children learn the value of new companions and friendship, especially the cynical Edward. And they are home in time for tea!

WHILE ACCOMPANYING HER MOTHER ON HER WEEKLY SHOPPING TRIP, TWELVE-YEAR-OLD WREN STUMBLES UPON A PAIR OF MAGIC SHOES IN A RESALE SHOP. WREN IS AMAZED AND REALIZES SHE HAS TO HAVE THE SHOES WHEN THE SHOES SPARKLE AND THE TOES OF THE SHOES TURN UP AND THEN DOWN AGAIN. AFTER WREN FINDS OUT THE SHOES ARE UNAFFORDABLE, SHE TRIES TO EARN THE MONEY TO BUY THE SHOES, BUT WHEN SHE IS UNABLE TO EARN THE MONEY SHE NEEDS, WREN’S MOTHER INTERVENES AND SURPRISES HER WITH THE SHOES. WREN THEN MEETS TI, A CHARACTER FROM ONE OF THE BOOKS SHE HAS READ AND GETS INDUCTED INTO A MAGICAL SOCIETY WHERE HER JOB IS TO USE HER NEW POWERS TO BEFRIEND AND TEACH UNTAUGHT CHILDREN TO READ.

There was a period, from 1961-1967, when Roger Zelazny was magic, and every new story of his was an event. He was a tremendously variable writer. The heart-wrenching "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" (written October 1967) was nothing like the passionate "Graveyard Heart," which was completely different from the mind blowing "The Ides of Octember," serialized in Amazing as "He Who Shapes," which was altogether different from the post-nuclear holocaust romp, "Damnation Alley," published in Galaxy and released as a film ten years later. Zelazny had style, his language sang, his prose flowed like poetry. There was really no one else quite like him when he exploded onto the scene. Collected here together in one volume are the ten long stories that made Zelazny a legend. The impact of these ten stories cannot be denied. Reading them together gives one a sense of how rare an accomplishment Zelazny's early career was. Samuel R. Delany is the author of more than 20 novels including Nova and Dhalgren. He has won two Hugo Awards, four Nebula Awards, two Lambda Awards, and the Stonewall Book Award. Delany is an SFWA Grand Master and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2002. He is widely regarded as one of our most important science fiction authors. Roger Zelazny was a science fiction and fantasy writer, a six time Hugo Award winner, and a three time Nebula Award Winner. He published more than forty novels in his lifetime. His first novel This Immortal, serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction under the title ...And Call Me Conrad, won the Hugo Award for best novel. Lord of Light, his third novel, also won the Hugo award and was nominated for the Nebula award. He died at age 58 from colon cancer. Zelazny was posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2010.

The Magic Seeds is the adventure of a couple of kids and their friends: Andes the condor, Pumpkin the armadillo, Speedy-the-Hare the jackrabbit, and Zorro the fox. Natural disasters are devastating the planet so the Animal Council assigns this group of friends the mission to solve the problem. Ana and Daniel, a couple of fourteen and thirteen year old siblings, set out the expedition with the company of their animal friends.The group discovers that the Earth is alarmingly warming up and water begins to deplete.The characters share danger, friendship and amusing experiences in their quest to save the planet.Facing many adventures the group makes new friends, meets the Spirit of the Rain, Aeolus, the lord of the winds, Poseidon, the god of the seas and encounters a dangerous old man.During their journey they discover the nature of the relationship between humans, animals and our Mother Earth.On The Magic Seeds you will find a thrilling adventure that brings us a message of responsibility with our environment, and hope for a better future.

The Magic Shop is a short story by H. G. Wells. Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction", as are Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau. Wells's earliest specialised training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a specifically and fundamentally Darwinian context. He was also from an early date an outspoken socialist, often (but not always, as at the beginning of the First World War) sympathising with pacifist views. His later works became increasingly political and didactic, and he sometimes indicated on official documents that his profession was that of "Journalist." Most of his later novels were not science fiction. Some described lower-middle class life (Kipps; The History of Mr Polly), leading him to be touted as a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay (1909), a diagnosis of English society as a whole. Wells's first non-fiction bestseller was Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought (1901). When originally serialised in a magazine it was subtitled, "An Experiment in Prophecy", and is considered his most explicitly futuristic work. It offered the immediate political message of the privileged sections of society continuing to bar capable men from other classes from advancement until war would force a need to employ those most able, rather than the traditional upper classes, as leaders. Anticipating what the world would be like in the year 2000, the book is interesting both for its hits (trains and cars resulting in the dispersion of population from cities to suburbs; moral restrictions declining as men and women seek greater sexual freedom; the defeat of German militarism, and the existence of a European Union) and its misses (he did not expect successful aircraft before 1950, and averred that "my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocate its crew and founder at sea").

Out for a walk in London one day, Gip and his father happen upon a magic shop. At Gip's urging, the two go in — and things grow more and more curious by the minute. Counters, store fixtures, and mirrors seem to move around the room, and the shopkeeper is most mysterious of all. Gip is thrilled by all he sees, and his father is at first amused, but when things become stranger and sinister father is no longer sure where reality ends and illusion begins. Fantastical illustrations underscore the macabre atmosphere of the tale, make this a perfect book read aloud together again and again.