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Tom's midnight garden- any others?

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peebles32 · 15/12/2024 20:44

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.

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niadainud · 15/12/2024 21:24

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

niadainud · 15/12/2024 21:23

Yes, I loved that one.

I think some early Jean Ure is very good.

Palavah · 15/12/2024 21:21

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
A Traveller in Time
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower

casapenguin · 15/12/2024 21:20

I think mid century, time-slip children’s books are my favourite genre, so I have some recommendations in that line! Penelope Lively wrote some gorgeous children’s books, The House on Norham Gardens and The Ghost of Thomas Kempe have a similar vibe to toms midnight garden I think, as does A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley and The Children of Green Knowe series by Lucy Boston.

DelurkingAJ · 15/12/2024 21:19

I’m reading this to DS2. Others that I think of as similar

  • Children of Greene Knowe
  • The Borrowers
  • A Stitch in Time
HeadNorth · 15/12/2024 21:09

The Secret Garden by Frances Hogson Burnettt is my favourite childhood book that remains poignant as an adult.

Writerinneed · 15/12/2024 21:08

More young adult than children’s books but I love the Northern Lights trilogy by Philip Pullman and The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins. Also Goodnight Mr Tom is beautiful.

AdaColeman · 15/12/2024 21:04

The Dark Is Rising series?
Everything that Alan Garner has written?

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