True friends will do anything
to save each other.

Their friendship broken after their first adventure into Arcadia, Audrey is captured by a new threat and Hilary must rescue her. Still bitter after their break-up, Hilary must overcome her anger to re-enter Arcadia. Yet the new threat is so terrible Great Aunt Virginia won't let her go alone; Audrey and Hilary's mothers must both join them in the Magic Realm.

No threat stops the true-hearted
when friends are in danger.

A Voodoo Doll has returned to threaten Arcadia. One at a time, the Voodoo Doll possesses their friends, even Audrey, and Hilary can't attack her victims without hurting them.

Hilary jumping skills can match any magic, but she can't free her friends. None can find the Voodoo Doll, and their only hope is to locate her secret lair and destroy the talismans she uses to enslave the dolls.


They must secretly enlist the help of the stuffed animals, the rag dolls, the marionettes, the paper dolls, the tin soldiers, the glamor dolls, and even the smiling troll dolls. Yet can they find and destroy the powers of the Voodoo Doll before her evil magic claims all of them?

Exciting Sequel To: The Magic of Play!



(The Heart of Play contains mild violence and early-teenage themes,
similar to "A Wrinkle in Time",
appropriate for very young readers and reading to small children,
with language tailored to increase a child's vocabulary.)