When I was a child, I was told of a place of beauty and magic, fondly dubbed The Magic Forest. It was full of an entirely colorful cast of characters, fairies, creatures, animals, events that shaped their lives, and how they look out for us in the real world. Not that the Magic Forest isn't real. In fact, the animals you see every day just may be one of the creatures of the forest keeping an eye on you. Hence, the squirrel in your backyard could be Ivan, the seagull at the beach could be Larry the Laughing Gull (I saw him once or twice myself), and the crow could be O'Malley and his gang-but we will get into that later. The magic is everywhere | The Magic Forest by Laura Lynn Hundley, Paperback | Indigo Chapters