Is there a magical website that helps you find books from your childhood?

[NigelWithTheBrie79]

I've tried googling details I remember for different books but no luck as of yet.

Following, I love these threads :)

@EllieQ I think I've found it! Children of Winter by Berlie Docherty
90s children go into a barn in a storm, then go back in time and live out the live of a family during the plague!

@SalaciousCrumble I think that is Jackie Won A Pony by Judith Beresford. The pony is called Misty not Kestrel, but that's the only detail that doesn't match.

@SalaciousCrumble I was going to suggest A Pony for Jill .but the pony is piebald I think

[quote JKDinomum]@EllieQ I think I've found it! Children of Winter by Berlie Docherty
90s children go into a barn in a storm, then go back in time and live out the live of a family during the plague![/quote]
Yes, I think that’s the one! Thank you

The witches and giants etc we have! They're usborne books with almost cartoon strip with tons of pictures. Great to get kids reading. They were like not quite a4 size in the 80s but now been changed to a5 smaller with one picture per page. www.wob.com/en-gb/books/christopher-rawson/giants/9780860203384 like this?

@Pralinelatte

I have one.

Read in the 90's, a novel that included a boy or girl, or maybe both, skating north on the frozen river Ouse past Ely up to the coast. I think late Victorian/Edwardian times. Wonderful description of Ely cathedral appearing floating above the fen mists. Cannot remember anything else but would love to read it again!

I am sure that's Tom's Midnight Garden

I am sure that's Tom's Midnight Garden

It is. Have just looked in my copy. Chapter 23 is called Skating. Tom and Hatty skate through the fenland to Ely.

@SamhainToImbolc

I am sure that's Tom's Midnight Garden

It is. Have just looked in my copy. Chapter 23 is called Skating. Tom and Hatty skate through the fenland to Ely.

I just looked up the synopsis and had forgotten that Tom was in quarantine so couldn’t leave the house and garden (in his time!) - very timely. I actually remember quarantine playing a part in quite a lot of books I read as a child - it was often a plot point in Malory Towers and St Clare’s, explaining why a “new girl” didn’t arrive until mid term, or getting rid of a character for a while so their friend could make friends with someone else and causing jealousy. Alos long term illnesses were a factor in a lot of books - children were either confined to bed or sent somewhere to convalesce - What Katy Did of course but also Marianne Dreams and lots of others.

And also in Charlotte Sometimes, set (partly, without giving away spoilers) in 1918 at the end of WW1 and at the time of the Spanish flu epidemic.

@SamhainToImbolc

And also in Charlotte Sometimes, set (partly, without giving away spoilers) in 1918 at the end of WW1 and at the time of the Spanish flu epidemic.

Loved Charlotte sometimes .

@EllieQ I've just bought it to reread to see if I still like it before giving it to my son

[quote JKDinomum]@EllieQ I've just bought it to reread to see if I still like it before giving it to my son[/quote]
Oh god I had completely forgotten this book but I loved it too. Also just bought with my son in mind.

Ah no thank you both. These books I think were in black and white, and had great intricate illustrations, they were quite eerie and gruesome stories about myths. I remember one about a rabbit's paw kept in someone's pocket.

I read they whole collection the titles seemed to have three elements like Giants, Gobins and Witches.

I have the Usborne Giants book!

@MargaretThursday, the kidnapping one could have been Antonia Forest, The Marlows and the Traitor?

I've got one if anyone can help. It's a young children's book. I read it in the early 80s, definitely before 1985.

It's about a boy, he has a friend called Laura, they go to see some fireworks. That's all I can remember

Was it the Barefoot book of Giants, Ghosts and Goblins @wolfstarling?

Interested...

I have one I’ve been trying to remember for ages.
A very strict/posh family, 2 girls and a boy, the oldest girl is always getting told off for reading too much. A much more relaxed family move in next door, and challenge/dare the three kids to do various things, the only one of which I remember was laying flowers on Byron’s tomb?!
Edwardianish setting I think.

@SalaciousCrumble

Oh I have one but can't remember much at all! It was a pony book, probably a Pullein-Thomson or similar about a girl who rescues a steel grey pony from the knackers and calls it Kestrel. I'm convinced the pony was called Kestrel but never been able to find it by googling! Any ideas?

Could it be the Kestrels series by Patricia Leitch? Scroll down a bit on this link to find the synopsis

patricialeitch.ponymadbooklovers.co.uk/

@Tanaqui
Unfortunately not. I have that book and love it.

I have one I’ve been desperate to track down for a few years now.
Set in 1970s I think, little girl is in the Brownies, it’s Christmas Eve and she’s involved in helping an old lady somehow. Brownies always do a good deed type story. When she gets home the Christmas tree is up. I think it was part of a series about Brownies stories.

I have one!
It was about a school for witches.That's literally all I can remember about the story. I read it in the early 80s (maybe J K Rowling did too )
I think the cover was pink and yellow and I vaguely recall silhouettes of witches on broomsticks.

@NoisyBrain could be the Worst Witch series?