#ann downer

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I’m so close to finishing “Hatching Magic” by Ann Downer. I even found a little magic in my backyard, if you consider it so.

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Ever afterward when Theodora went to the Public Garden, she was careful to seek out one particular swan—usually found squishing its webbed feet contentedly in the muck—and feed it marshmallows.

Ann Downer, from Hatching Magic

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💙 Reading: Hatching Magic by Ann Downer

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🌟Current 🐲 Dragon 📘 Book: Hatching Magic by Ann Downer

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Fetch the wyvern- what could go wrong?

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OF COURSE Omar Rayyan did one two of my favorite pieces of cover art. What a wonderful dude.

Left: Hatching Magic by Ann Downer

Right: The Dragon of Never-Was by Ann Downer

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“One of the many gifts that books give readers is a connection to each other. When we share an affection for a writer, an author or a story, we also have a better understanding of people unlike ourselves. Books cultivate empathy."

—Sarah Jessica Parker

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🪺 Hatching Magic by Ann Downer

Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟/5

Gideon, a wizard from 13th century Europe, loses his wyvern through a time-traveling bolt hole, as she prepares to lay her egg. Now, he must travel into the 21st century in Boston to find his wyvern before someone or something much worse finds her first.

I found this book at my elementary school used book fair when I was a kid and I remember reading it with such fervor and interest as a young dragon-kid.

Getting to reread the book gave me so much nostalgia and I enjoyed the story all over again. It was very entertaining how you’re reading three to four perspectives on a wild goose (wyvern) chase and they all keep narrowly missing each other. The ending was fabulous and builds up to the possibility of a second book, and there IS a second book. Lucky me!