Definitely buy, if not for your children, then for yourself. Don't pay attention to one-star reviews, they will reflect the reviewers' religious beliefs and not the worthiness of The Magic of Reality.
What will you tell your geeky children the next time they pester you about where life came from, how the universe started and why bad things happen to us? For thousands of years the only answers we had came from myths and other made up stories, but now we have a much much better way of explaining things with science.
Dawkins' book is a stab at putting together the scientific answers to these and a few more questions, like what are rainbows and stars, how come there are so many different forms of life and so on. It doesn't cover every single question a fairly intelligent tweenager may ask, but it has a pretty good go at it.
You could say that most of it is covered anyway in school course books, but The Magic of Reality has a new angle or two.
First of all, it Dawkins precedes most scientific explanations with the corresponding myths. For example the chapter on the real causes of earthquakes comes introduced by the Japanese myth of a giant catfish. The not so hidden agenda is to show that myths, including those from the Bible, don't really explain anything and are just so stories. Don't be fooled by the apparent sympathy towards such folktales. Dawkins also shows quite clearly that some of them are not just harmless treasures of our more ignorant past but can still actively poison our minds.
Second, it comes with an added value of fantastic illustrations that are easily the book's strongest selling point. In the age of kindle, this is a book to have a hardcover copy of on your shelf.
Although it may be useful as either an introduction to science for children or a revision for older readers like me, it doesn't cover all the fields and the view of science and scientific progress is somehow simplified (but not dumbed down). For a history of science with all its naughty and nasty bits grab a copy of
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson. It is also my personal opinion that it doesn't quite capture the mind-boggling awesomeness of reality the way Robin Ince did in his TED talk, but sadly Ince hasn't written it down yet.
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