CHAPTER 1 DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE MAGIC “Come on! Aren’t you coming? I told you we would have to be quick. You want to see the horse with the wings, don’t you?” When they heard the word, horse, the children stopped what they were doing and started to gather around. “Where is it? Where is it?” Annette asked. “No silly, the magical horse with wings won’t come until we work the magic … Now, I need you to get all the other kids away from the sand pit where the monkey bars are. We have to round up all the other children in the playground to form a circle and get them to wish for magic around us.” The Wheeler Heights school playground in New South Wales was busy with the first through fifth graders on the playground. All were playing games, running,
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