A MAGIC EYE FOR IDA

by Kay Chorao ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 22, 1973

Still another cast of stuffed animal characters in human homes and clothing is used to jazz up a story of everyday problems. Fatherless Ida (a pussycat), ignored by her artist mother and movie fan brother and jealous of her classmate's 32 dollies, decides to run away from home. Before returning to a now worried and loving mother she meets a fortune teller who inspires her to burst into rhyme (thus proving that she is special) and gives her a ""magic eye"" to wear around her neck and show off at school. Ida's sudden blossoming as a poet is a less disarming kind of make-believe than her acquiring of the bizarre pendant, and in the end this is just a smartly eccentric version of Lexau's openly therapeutic Emily and the Klunky Baby and the Dog Next Door (KR 1972).

Pub Date: March 22, 1973

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Seabury

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1973

Categories: CHILDREN'S