Marianne Dreams

[lucydo]

Does anyone remember this? I saw it in Hatchards yesterday , bought it for my granddaughter, and couldn't resist reading it all on the way home. What a great book.

I remember that from my childhood & was thinking about getting it for my DC!

This book freaked me out so much as a kid. Even just thinking about it leaves me with a horrible cold feeling!

Amazing book, read it several times as a child

Oh, oh oh

This is one of my absolute lifetime favourite books, and I always assume it is just my secret, because nobody else has ever heard of it.

Birthday roast chicken just brings it straight back to mind

and all the boiled eggs!
so - I got all excited when I bought it for my granddaughter. Who is 30 months. What is the right age to give it?

This book gave me nightmares as a child. Wasn't it televised too?

I love all those slightly creepy books like Marianne Dreams and Charlotte Sometimes. When Marnie Was There, A Traveller in Time, A Stitch in Time.

There was another one called Come Back, Lucy. But that creeped me out too much

Scandaloso Oh! Those are my favourites too. And Tom's Midnight Garden. I think there is actually a category called 'Time Slip books' which encapsulates all these slightly odd 'and then she woke up in a different time' tales.

OP - don't make the mistake of getting the 'sequel' - it isn't anything like the original and I recall being really disappointed.

I loved A Traveller in Time. Another book which really captured my imagination (but was - looking back on it - weird, not spooky) was A Little White Horse.

I loved this book when I was a child.
I think I would have been about 10 or so the first time I read it.

Rubaiyat Tom's Midnight Garden is the king of the timeslip books. I nearly bought a first edition when browsing online (whilst sipping some wine) a few months ago but I sensibly stopped myself

I'm not sure I've read A Little White Horse. I'll have to google it.

Love this book. I made DS1 read it when he was 11 and it freaked him out and so I think your 30mth old GD might have to wait a while..

A Little White Horse - Elizabeth Goudge (sp?)

My favourite ever book! Although I do like Marianne Dreams too - always a bit scary!

This book really unnerved me but I loved it! It's really stayed with me.

Oh I loved this so much! I bought it again a couple of years ago and still loved it.