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peebles32 · 2024-12-15T20:44:41+00:00

How can I have missed this book? Pure genius and magical. I love children's literature so any recommendations appreciated. Another favourite was Wolf Wilder, Katherine Rundell.

Scutterbug · 15/12/2024 22:47

The secret garden
What katy did
Pollyanna!

Santasbigredbobblehat · 15/12/2024 22:47

Agree with:
Moondial
The Secret World of Polly Flint
Carrie’s War
Wolves of Willoughby Chase
and anything by Penelope Lively b

evtheria · 15/12/2024 22:46

TeaAndStrumpets · 15/12/2024 22:37

Diana Wynne Jones is brilliant.

Yes, I was coming on to recommend her 'Fire & Hemlock' for a similar vibe to 'Tom's Midnight Garden'!

HRkittenheels · 15/12/2024 22:42

The Changes trilogy

The Sleepers on the Hill

The Phantom Tollbooth

For younger children, Carbonel and The Princess and Curdie and The Princess and the Goblin

Though it's more recent, Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series

And although some of the attitudes and language are very dated, some E. Nesbit books

There's a lovely Goodreads list at
www.goodreads.com/list/show/22563.Magical_children_s_books

TeaAndStrumpets · 15/12/2024 22:37

Diana Wynne Jones is brilliant.

WendyWebersdrugget · 15/12/2024 22:36

And A Traveller in Time by Alison Utley

WendyWebersdrugget · 15/12/2024 22:33

Oh - one more classic: Come Back Lucy by Pamela Sykes. Nearly as good as Tom’s Midnight Garden (not quite, but nearly!)

ProvincialLady24 · 15/12/2024 22:31

Charlotte Sometimes

Growlybear83 · 15/12/2024 22:30

I think Tom's Midnight Garden is one of my favourite books of all time. I read it so many times when I was a little girl and it was just as magical when I read it again a few years ago.

StJulian2023 · 15/12/2024 22:26

JaninaDuszejko · 15/12/2024 22:17

Tom's Midnight Garden is widely regarded as one of the, if not the, greatest children's novels of the 20th century so is hard to beat. The only one I love anywhere nearly as much is Carrie's War (but agree with all the recommendations).

I came on to say exactly what this poster said. I'll go now

WendyWebersdrugget · 15/12/2024 22:26

The Witch’s Daughter by Nina Bawden is a great recommendation. Plus Children of the Stones is superb.

WendyWebersdrugget · 15/12/2024 22:25

Carrie’s War - brilliant book, has stayed with me forever. The Ghost of Thomas Kempe is brilliant. Anything by Joan Aitken but shout out to Charlotte Sometimes because that is a book I still think about a lot. And Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff.

JaninaDuszejko · 15/12/2024 22:17

Tom's Midnight Garden is widely regarded as one of the, if not the, greatest children's novels of the 20th century so is hard to beat. The only one I love anywhere nearly as much is Carrie's War (but agree with all the recommendations).

AgathaMystery · 15/12/2024 22:10

SybilTheSpy · 15/12/2024 21:30

The Moondial
Beswitched
Charlotte Sometimes
When Marnie Was There

I came on to say Moondial. I loved the TV show too.

Also Carries War, Granny was a Buffer Girl & anything by Paula Danziger.

wheresmyliveship · 15/12/2024 22:08

The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge

DanglingMod · 15/12/2024 21:54

The Witch's Daughter by Nina Bawden
When Marnie Was There by Joan G Robinson
(More recent but very magical) The Way Past Winter by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

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peebles32 · 15/12/2024 21:50

casapenguin · 15/12/2024 21:25

Nina Bawden might be in the same line, no time travel but ‘children in a new place’. I also think Rosemary Sutcliffe is just a brilliant historical novelist, for children or not, and Mary Stewart’s Arthur series is also great.

Loved Carrie's war.

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2024riot · 15/12/2024 21:38

peebles32 · 15/12/2024 21:36

Ooh thanks everyone. It has absolutely blown me away! Such a magical book and so well written. Will check out the others.
I think I remember Moondial from when I was a kid.

I think these were both made into BBC shows as well and were epic

2024riot · 15/12/2024 21:37

The amazing mr blunden ! Although children of greene knowe is my all time favourite

niadainud · 15/12/2024 21:36

Box of Delights?

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peebles32 · 15/12/2024 21:36

Ooh thanks everyone. It has absolutely blown me away! Such a magical book and so well written. Will check out the others.
I think I remember Moondial from when I was a kid.

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peebles32 · 15/12/2024 21:35

niadainud · 15/12/2024 21:24

Also if you haven't read all the Narnia chronicles I love The Magician's Nephew.

Loved all of these!

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DaveWatts · 15/12/2024 21:34

The Secret World of Polly Flint is another with a similar vibe

SybilTheSpy · 15/12/2024 21:30

The Moondial
Beswitched
Charlotte Sometimes
When Marnie Was There

casapenguin · 15/12/2024 21:25

Nina Bawden might be in the same line, no time travel but ‘children in a new place’. I also think Rosemary Sutcliffe is just a brilliant historical novelist, for children or not, and Mary Stewart’s Arthur series is also great.