The Magic Bottle

Overview:

  • Title: The Magic Bottle
  • Author: Pat O'Shea
  • Year: 1999
  • ISBN-10: 059011350X
  • Publisher: Scholastic Children's Books
  • Price: £1.00
  • Pages: 63
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Chapter Book
  • Title Reference: The Magic Bottle
  • Notes:
    Retold by Pat O'Shea; Illustrated by Steve Lavis Publication date and cover image from Amazon UK 2023-04-30 as Paperback and "Scholastic (19 Nov. 1999)".
      Archive.org provides full view of the 1st printing per full numberline "2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1".
    • Title page states "Retold by Pat O'Shea" and "Illustrated by Steve Lavis" with footer/imprint only the Scholastic banner/logo over "Home of the Story".
    • T.p. verso names "Scholastic Children's Books", with London address, "a division of Scholastic Ltd". "First published by Scholastic Ltd, 1999"
    • Narrative spans p9-63. Every two-page spread displays the same black-and-white illustrated banners, two as header and footer. Some pages also display amid the text one of three small b/w illustrations --a cottage, a cow, a presumable witch holding a bottle.
    • Back cover, illustrated by the front cover artist, displays "Everystory" logo over Scholastic banner/logo.
    • Cover art differs radically from the interior decoration. The former is not credited here because scope of title leaf by-line and copyright statement ("Illustrations (c) Steve Lavis, 1999") is uncertain.
    Library records (BL and OCLC, below) report the publisher as "Hippo" or "Scholastic", London, 1999. "Hippo" does not appear in the book, only perhaps on the spine. Open Library page title is "The Magic Bottle (Everystory S.)", presumably for "Everystory Scholastic".