Very British books for a 7 year old American girl

[PepeLePew]

I'd like to send some and am struggling to think of some lesser known classics. I've got White Boots (or whatever it is now called...) for her and am stumped. Looking at dd's shelves and all the much loved ones from that age are American - Harriet the Spy etc. Please inspire me.

enid blyton

The Worst Witch? Malory Towers? Harry Potter doesn't count as lesser known...

The Phoenix and the Carpet?

Just William, CS Lewis, My Naughty Little Sister, Teddy Robinson

Narnia books (some of the later ones are less known). Clever polly and the stupid wolf.

Pippi longstocking?
Just William?

Paddington

Paddington Paddington Paddington!

Famous five, secret 7 & any other Enid blyton books

Noel Streatfield, Ballet Shoes is quiet well known but she wrote many more books.

Susan Cooper The Dark Is Rising series. Rosemary Sutcliffe. Noel Streatfeild. Arthur Ransome.

When Marnie was there.
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower

The Little Princess and The Secret Garden are v. British but not really lesser know. But to be fair, White Boots is a bit of a well known classic!

How about Apple Bough or one of the genuinely lesser known Streatfeild's?

Carrie's War
Sting of the Dump
The Diddakoi

Sittingdrinkingtea - White Boots that the OP has already bought is by Noel Streatfeild.

Pippi Longstocking is Swedish, sorry.

The Warden's Niece
Five Children and It

How about Milly Molly Mandy or My Naughty Little Sister?

And Olga da Polga books by Micheal Bond.

Malory Towers and St. Claire's series. Stayed up most of the night reading them they were so awesome. MT better than St. C though. Carries War was also a favourite.

Ah, okay I advised in error.

The Milly-Molly-Mandy books are very accessible for a 7 year old.

Definitely Ballet Shoes and The Worst Witch!

Pippi Longstocking isn't British! Swedish I think...

How about The Railway Children? The Naughtiest Girl series by E Blyton?

Or some feminist fairy tales? My mum got me Mizilca and Other Stories and The Clever Princess which I loved.

Back Home and Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian. Back Home is about an evacuee returning to Britain from the USA so a good crossover.

Howie Gorby Plays Chicken and The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler, both by the same author (Gene Kemp?? Or have I completely made that up?)

Horrid Henry. Enid Blyton.
So many of these suggested were way too long for my (said to be gifted precocious reading) 7yo to want to read.

For an older kid I'd say The Secret Garden.