Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 7 (click to see context) from:
* WriteWhatYouKnow: ''Half Magic'' is set in Toledo, Ohio, where Eager grew up, while ''The Well-Wishers'' and ''Magic or Not'' are set in New Canaan, Connecticut, where Eager was living at the time.
to:
* WriteWhatYouKnow: ''Half Magic'' is set in Toledo, Ohio, where Eager grew up, while ''The Well-Wishers'' and ''Magic or Not'' are set in New Canaan, Connecticut, where Eager was living at the time. Roger and Ann's father is also noted to be a playwright, as Eager was in real life.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 6 (click to see context) from:
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: At the time of his death, Eager was working on an eighth book in which [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover all the children from his previous books]] would finally meet and go on an adventure together. Whatever existed of this book has since been lost.
to:
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: At the time of his death, Eager was working on an eighth book in which [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover all the children from his previous books]] would finally meet and go on an adventure together. Whatever existed of this book has since been lost.lost.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: ''Half Magic'' is set in Toledo, Ohio, where Eager grew up, while ''The Well-Wishers'' and ''Magic or Not'' are set in New Canaan, Connecticut, where Eager was living at the time.
* WrittenForMyKids: Eager began writing because of his son, Fritz.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: ''Half Magic'' is set in Toledo, Ohio, where Eager grew up, while ''The Well-Wishers'' and ''Magic or Not'' are set in New Canaan, Connecticut, where Eager was living at the time.
* WrittenForMyKids: Eager began writing because of his son, Fritz.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* HeAlsoDid: Eager's extensive repertoire of librettos and radio plays have been eclipsed by his more enduring children's books. While the scripts survive for a number of his radio productions, the recordings do not.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 3 (click to see context) from:
* HarsherInHindsight: A frequent theme in Eager's stories is that of children dealing with the legacy of a DisappearedDad. In ''Half-Magic,'' we never learn what happened to the children's father, only that he died, while in ''Knight's Castle,'' the father is very ill and ''almost'' dies. Eager himself died at the early age of 53, when his own son Fritz, for whom he originally started writing children's stories, was only 22.
to:
* HarsherInHindsight: A frequent theme in Eager's stories is that of children dealing with the legacy of a DisappearedDad. In ''Half-Magic,'' we never learn what happened to the children's father, only that he died, while in ''Knight's Castle,'' the father is very ill and ''almost'' dies. Eager himself died at the early age of 53, when his own son Fritz, for whom he originally started writing children's stories, Fritz was only 22. 22.
** Tangentially related, but equally sad, is that Fritz Eager, who inspired his father to write books for children after Fritz complained he had nothing good to read, survived his father by only 4 years.
** Tangentially related, but equally sad, is that Fritz Eager, who inspired his father to write books for children after Fritz complained he had nothing good to read, survived his father by only 4 years.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* FirstInstallmentWins: All of Eager's children's books were extremely popular at the time of their original publication, but ''Half-Magic'' became the only one that's perpetually stayed in print since its publication, with the other books fading out of print in the early 1970s. Only in the 1990s was the complete set reissued in time to celebrate ''Half-Magic'''s 40th anniversary.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 2 (click to see context) from:
* HarsherInHindsight: A frequent theme in Eager's story is that of children dealing with the legacy of a DisappearedDad. In ''Half-Magic,'' we never learn what happened to the children's father, only that he died, while in ''Knight's Castle,'' the father is very ill and ''almost'' dies. Eager himself died at the early age of 53, when his own son Fritz, for whom he originally started writing children's stories, was only 22.
to:
* HarsherInHindsight: A frequent theme in Eager's story stories is that of children dealing with the legacy of a DisappearedDad. In ''Half-Magic,'' we never learn what happened to the children's father, only that he died, while in ''Knight's Castle,'' the father is very ill and ''almost'' dies. Eager himself died at the early age of 53, when his own son Fritz, for whom he originally started writing children's stories, was only 22.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 1 (click to see context) from:
* HarsherInHindsight: A frequent theme in Eager's story is that of children dealing with the legacy of a DisappearedDad. In ''Half-Magic,'' we never learn what happened to the children's father, only that he died, while in ''Knight's Castle,'' the father is very ill and ''almost'' dies. Eager himself died at the early age of 53, when his own son Fritz, for whom he originally started writing children's stories, was only 22.
to:
* ColbertBump: The works of E. Nesbit, while a perennial standby in the UK, never caught on in America, and by the 1950s, they were out of print in the States. The popularity of Eager's books and his frequent Nesbit name-dropping appear to have led directly to Nesbit's books being reprinted and rediscovered by American children. (Ironically, these days Nesbit's established herself firmly in America, while Eager's books, with the exception of ''Half-Magic'', have become more obscure.)
* HarsherInHindsight: A frequent theme in Eager's story is that of children dealing with the legacy of a DisappearedDad. In ''Half-Magic,'' we never learn what happened to the children's father, only that he died, while in ''Knight's Castle,'' the father is very ill and ''almost'' dies. Eager himself died at the early age of 53, when his own son Fritz, for whom he originally started writing children's stories, was only 22.
* HarsherInHindsight: A frequent theme in Eager's story is that of children dealing with the legacy of a DisappearedDad. In ''Half-Magic,'' we never learn what happened to the children's father, only that he died, while in ''Knight's Castle,'' the father is very ill and ''almost'' dies. Eager himself died at the early age of 53, when his own son Fritz, for whom he originally started writing children's stories, was only 22.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* HarsherInHindsight: A frequent theme in Eager's story is that of children dealing with the legacy of a DisappearedDad. In ''Half-Magic,'' we never learn what happened to the children's father, only that he died, while in ''Knight's Castle,'' the father is very ill and ''almost'' dies. Eager himself died at the early age of 53, when his own son Fritz, for whom he originally started writing children's stories, was only 22.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: At the time of his death, Eager was working on an eighth book in which [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover all the children from his previous books]] would finally meet and go on an adventure together. Whatever existed of this book has since been lost.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: At the time of his death, Eager was working on an eighth book in which [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover all the children from his previous books]] would finally meet and go on an adventure together. Whatever existed of this book has since been lost.
