The Magician's Workshop, Volume One: 1

Everyone in the islands of O Ceea has a magical ability: whatever they imagine can be brought into existence. Whoever becomes a master over these powers is awarded the title of magician and given fame, power, riches, and glory. Journey with a group of kids as they strive to rise to the top and become members of the Magician s Workshop.

Christopher Hansen: The first glimmering Chris Hansen had that there was far more to reality than he had ever imagined occurred six days after his ninth birthday. Christopher! cried a wise, old sage. Life is full of deep magic. Miraculous things happen all around us. Chris looked around him and asked, Where? I don t see anything spectacular. The man held out a pair of glasses. Here, put these on. The boy placed them over his eyes and Whoa! He was gobsmacked by the Wonder he saw. But it lasted only a moment. The man vanished in a flash of starlight and the lenses melted and trickled down his cheeks. Then a message was sung into his ear, Go and seek what you have seen. Full of expectation and childlike optimism, Chris set out. To his great joy, this quest has led him to discover many more glimmerings of this miraculous Wonder, often in the most unexpected of places.
J.R. Fehr: When J.R. Fehr popped out of the womb, he knew there was more to the world than the four boring hospital walls that he was seeing. Zango! his newborn mind exclaimed as he saw people appear and disappear through a mysterious portal in the wall. As a child, he continued to find life whoa-tazzling. But as he grew older, the cold water of reality hit him, and the magic he once knew vanished. After spending some wet and shivering years lost in a joyless marshland, he once again began to see magic in the world. He writes because the Wonder of true life is far grander than anything he ever thought possible.