Remember when you were a kid, and it seemed like any doorway or hollowed-out tree could take you to Narnia or FernGully? Magical realist books recapture that feeling, offering a portal to a world ...

Life is never more exciting than it is in that short period in your life when you believe that magic is real. Perhaps you believe in in Santa Claus, or maybe you grew up keeping an eye out on the ...

Children's outreach specialist Katie Jane Morris and I were recently discussing our mutual fondness for the works of Sarah Addison Allen. Her debut novel, "Garden Spells," remains my favorite. The ...

My mother has always been a great fan of magical realism. I think part of the unavoidable rebellion of growing up and being a teenager led me to refuse to ever read these bizarre, mystical novels she ...

Readers who've been enchanted by the surreal utopia of Macondo in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1967 masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, know all about magical realism: the literary technique in ...

This episode features two different books by one author: Salman Rushdie. And while the two stories differ, recurrent themes of magical realism and the supernatural accompany them both. First, Rushdie, ...

Who am I to recommend you these children’s books? I’m a former teacher, a mom, and a writer. The reviews below are my honest opinions from reading all these books –and more. These are my ...

Based upon the African legend of Mami Wata, the novel is explores “what happens when a heroine does not want to be good,” the ...

In Rebecca Serle’s new book “Expiration Dates: A Novel,” the protagonist, Daphne, knows when her relationships will end. A slip of paper always shows up with a name and a number for how long they will ...