The Time Garden

May 27, 2011 Luisa Fernanda Cubillos 9ª

THE TIME GARDEN
The Time Garden is a 192 pagedfantasy novel, published by Odyssey Classic in 1986, written by Edgar Eager an American lyricist, playwright, and author of books for children. The story is about four cousins, who spend the whole summerin a house by the sea where they find a thyme garden filled with bizarre kinds of thyme which leads them to unusual but rather exiting adventures filled with play words and puns by which the crazyand spontaneous characters teach the children important life lessons. Somewhere along their splendid journeys the children realize the most important lesson of all, “When having all the time in theworld, anything is possible”.
The story begins when Jane, Roger, Jack and Ann smell for the first time the exquisite fragrant of the wild thyme, which unknowingly drives them to their first of manyadventures, with their loyal companion the Natterjack, a peculiar toad that guides them through all their journeys, being it in charge of all the “time”. The adventures take place in the thyme garden oftheir aunt’s beach house. The garden has a diversity of thyme, each takes them to different adventures according to the name of it, for instance ‘wild time’ took them all the way back to the civil war,‘good time´ took the children to the house of the author of “Little Women”. They had many adventures all summer long but the thyme was ripening so no longer it worked, but one day at sunset theNatterjack gave them a last surprise. They could have one last adventure one they had waited anxiously to come, they went and saw Roger and Ann’s Dad play in London, and that was all. This was the lastadventure the four children had, the last time they saw the Natterjack, but never in their entire life would these four cousins forget, what happened in the thyme garden of a hot summer day.
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