Customer Reviews
Over-hyped - By: Ninalodo, 01 Jan 2009 
After Stardust (a film that sounds awful but is actually very good) I was given this book to try. It is written by Neil Gaiman, who the Times newspaper said was the best thing since J.K. Rowling.
Well I have to say I was fairly dissapointed. Some are good & well thought out but others are deadpan, middle of the road & to put it into one word: Boring. Mediocre. Not what I was expecting at all. I think that he can only be brilliant when he has a team of other writers behind him.
Thanks for reading my review. I hope this has helped.
Not many new stories - By: RJ Baylis, 21 Oct 2007 
Most of these short stories are foundin Neil Gaiman's other anthologies: 'Smoke & Mirrors' & 'Fragile Things', so expect nothing new except for the first & last story, if you already have these 2 books. If you haven't, then this is probably a good way begin. Whilst the stries themselves are exceptional, for this book itself, if it wasnt for the addition of 2 new stories, I may have given it 3 stars, as you are better off sticking to the other anothologies.
Courtesy of Teens Read Too - By: TeensReadToo.com, 20 Aug 2007 
M IS FOR MAGIC is a collection of eleven short stories. This book was geared for elementary/middle school but I thought that I couldn't read many of the stories aloudin my classroom because some of the themes are pretty adult.
I liked many of the stories, especially THE WITCH'S HEADSTONE. This was a story about a real boy who was livingin a graveyard & being raised by ghosts. He decides to do a very kind thing for a ghost who didn't get a gravestone & the story follows the adventure that goes with that decision.
I also enjoyed THE CASE OF FOUR AND TWENTY BLACKBIRDS. It was a detective story set with nursery rhyme characters. The detective needs to solve the mystery of who killed Humpty Dumpty. It is told with attitude & is very funny.
There are also stories that are scary or just plain creepy. The story about the jack-in-the-box just gave me chills. So if you want to read some good, strange stories that only take about an hour to read, check this book out.
Reviewed by: Marta Morrison
