Children's books/TV with a transformation portal (Lion Witch W)

[BlackberryBeret]

Can anyone recommend any children's books or TV shows with a transformation portal where characters go to a particular location or through someone that leads to another world or another experience.

I've got Lion Witch Wardrobe (the wardrobe to Narnia), Harry Potter (the train at Kings X). I know of older TV series like Mr Benn (shop changing room) but is there anything more modern?

Or any other books?

The secret world of Polly Flint? Involves time travel if I remember correctly. same with Stig of the dump.

I will now be reading any of these that I haven't already seen!

Come Back Lucy

When Marnie was There - a beautiful book that is so real and makes me cry. There was a recent anime version that was pretty good.

But I think these are both more timeslip than portal?

coldhandscoldheart

Jill does, via a whole adventure in Narnia. As does Eustace. The others go there directly because they are killed.
In fact I’d say the stable at the end was another magical portal, as it led to Aslans country and was used to save all the ‘good’ people at the end of time in Narnia.

The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer is really popular here with yr 4/5s. Twins go through a fairy tale book to find that all the Grimms fairy tales are based on a real world and real characters who have all grown up a bit and the fairy tales weren't quite as straightforward as portrayed in Disney films. It has suspense and magic, six books in the series each building the story.

The Wishing Chair - Blyton.

Jill and Eustace were also killed in the train crash. They were on the train with Lucy, Diggory and Polly (and, though they didn't know it), Lucy's parents.

Peter and Edmund were waiting to meet them at the station.

They all end up in Aslan's country.

By coincidence I re-read The Last Battle yesterday!

Hagbane's Doom, which is a 80s Narnia rip off, but quite good, especially the second book, Gublak's Greed.

Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones

Black Hunting Whip and The Spirit of Punchbowl Farm by Monica Edwards are time slip stories as is Treasure at Amorys by Malcolm Saville.

The best known time slip are probably Green Knowe

Box of Delights is great until the last page where it's ruined by being a dream. Can't think what John Masefield thought when he did that. Especially as the first book in the series (Midnight Folk) has similar levels of magic but isn't a dream.

Dark is Rising has the meeting of two worlds, but not specifically a portal.

Maybe a bit adult, but for TV: Quantum Leap?