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The Magic Key

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Audience
Adaptations
Characters
TV tie-in book titles
Television series
Episodes
References
External links

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2012}}{{for|the 2002 song|The Magic Key (song)}}The Magic Key is a series of books published for children as part of the Oxford Reading Tree, from Oxford University Press. The books are written by Roderick Hunt, illustrated by Alex Brychta, and primarily follow the lives of three children, Biff, Chip and Kipper Robinson, their parents, their grandmother, their friends, Wilf and Wilma Page, Nadim Shah, Anneena Petal and the Robinson’s dog, Floppy. The series was first published in 1985 with a set of 30 stories, and there are now over 300. It is used by more than 80% of schools in the United Kingdom, and has been translated into numerous languages in over 120 different countries.^[1] In 2000, it was made into a television series, produced by the BBC.^[2]

Audience

The books are aimed at children from four to the age of nine, and could form part of an English language syllabus in line with the National Curriculum, designed to help children learn to speak and read Standard English.

Adaptations

The books were developed into a television series consisting of 26 episodes, each featuring a different story, plus helpful hints towards teaching children good use of English.

The series was shown as part of the BBC Schools segments in the morning, then transferred to CBeebies in 2004, and shown during 2004 and 2005. It was also sold on DVD as a whole series which came out in 2006.

Characters

Kipper Robinson
Biff Robinson
Chip Robinson
Mum
Dad
Floppy the dog
Gran
Wilf and Wilma Page
Anneena Patel
Nadim Shah
Mrs. May

TV tie-in book titles

The Rook King
The Patchworker
Troll Talk
Tumbleweed Desert
The Flying Circus
Fabulous Fancy Foods
Underwater World
The Demon Drill
Lug & the Giant Storks

Television series

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In the television show, Floppy wears a collar around his neck with a golden key upon it. The key is magic, as the title suggests, and seems to do some strange things whenever Floppy wishes for something. It starts to glow and transports the children, Floppy and sometimes their grandmother through a vortex to other worlds, where they have exciting adventures, such as dealing with trolls in an underground cavern, being characters inside a computer game, or finding the Fountain of Youth and when the adventure is done, they get a gift and the key glows and they all go home. In the books the key is kept in a box which opens the door to a dolls house and Floppy does not go on all the adventures.

As well as Biff, Chip and Kipper Robinson, four other children also appear in the stories and occasionally find themselves in the adventures caused by the Magic Key, namely Wilf and Wilma Page, Nadim Shah (whose mother and father own the local corner shop which features in a couple of the stories), and Anneena Patel.

Episodes


Number	Name	Publishing date	Plot summary
1	HMS Sweet Tooth	September 4th 2000
2	Lug & the Giant Storks	September 11th 2000
3	The Rook King	September 18th 2000
4	Clutterland Band	September 25th 2000
5	Troll Talk	October 2nd 2000	Saying Things in Different Emotions: Biff, Wilf, Gran and Floppy have been spun into an underground cavern, where a group of hungry trolls capture Biff and Gran and want to cook them as People Stew! Can Wilf and Floppy rescue them before they all end cooked up as People and Dog Stew?
6	The Patchworker	October 9th 2000
7	Code Calling	October 16th 2000
8	Zandoodle & the Wheezlebang	October 23rd 2000	Labels: Chip, Kipper and Floppy find themselves in a place called Wizworld. When Kipper pulls a cork off of one of the wizards bottles, a whirlwind comes out and turns the Wizards vacuum cleaner into a giant vacuum which sucks up Chip and Floppy! Now It's up to Kipper and the Wizard to stop it before Wizworld becomes barren.
9	Biff of the Jungle	October 30th 2000
10	Nadim's Machine	November 6th 2000
11	The Flying Circus	November 13th 2000
12	Fraser the Eraser	November 20th 2000
13	The Anneena Academy	November 27th 2000
14	Dragon Land	December 4th 2000
15	The Queen of Hearts	December 11th 2000
16	Floppy & the Puppies	January 8th 2001
17	The Giant & the Knee Nibblers	January 15th 2001
18	The Cream Cake Mystery	January 22nd 2001
19	Master Hansel & Miss Gretal	January 29th 2001
20	The Sound Monster	February 5th 2001
21	Tumbleweed Desert	February 12th 2001
22	The Stone of Contentment	February 19th 2001
23	The Demon Drill	February 26th 2001
24	Fabulous Fancy Foods	March 5th 2001
25	The Fountain of Youth	March 12th 2001
26	Underwater World	March 19th 2001

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://fds.oup.com/www0.oup.com/ort/pdf/era09/rod_and_alex_press_release.pdf |title=Series Creators of Oxford Reading Tree, Roderick Hunt MBE and Alex Brychta, receive the prestigious Outstanding Achievement Award in this year’s Education Resources Awards |publisher=Oxford University Press |accessdate=18 July 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726010144/http://fds.oup.com/www0.oup.com/ort/pdf/era09/rod_and_alex_press_release.pdf |archivedate=26 July 2011 |df=dmy-all }}
2. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=338574 |title=TV holds Magic Key |work=Times Educational Supplement |publisher=TSL Education Ltd |date=22 September 2000 |first=Elaine |last=Williams |accessdate=18 July 2009}}

External links

The Magic Key website

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