Tom's midnight garden- any others?

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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.

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

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.

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

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

• Children of Greene Knowe
• The Borrowers
• A Stitch in Time

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.

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

Yes, I loved that one.

I think some early Jean Ure is very good.

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

Nina Bawden might be in the same line, no time travel but ‘children in a new place’. I also think Rosemary Sutcliffe is just a brilliant historical novelist, for children or not, and Mary Stewart’s Arthur series is also great.

The Moondial
Beswitched
Charlotte Sometimes
When Marnie Was There

The Secret World of Polly Flint is another with a similar vibe

Loved all of these!

Ooh thanks everyone. It has absolutely blown me away! Such a magical book and so well written. Will check out the others.
I think I remember Moondial from when I was a kid.

Box of Delights?

The amazing mr blunden ! Although children of greene knowe is my all time favourite

I think these were both made into BBC shows as well and were epic

Loved Carrie's war.

The Witch's Daughter by Nina Bawden
When Marnie Was There by Joan G Robinson
(More recent but very magical) The Way Past Winter by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge

I came on to say Moondial. I loved the TV show too.

Also Carries War, Granny was a Buffer Girl & anything by Paula Danziger.

Tom's Midnight Garden is widely regarded as one of the, if not the, greatest children's novels of the 20th century so is hard to beat. The only one I love anywhere nearly as much is Carrie's War (but agree with all the recommendations).

Carrie’s War - brilliant book, has stayed with me forever. The Ghost of Thomas Kempe is brilliant. Anything by Joan Aitken but shout out to Charlotte Sometimes because that is a book I still think about a lot. And Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff.

The Witch’s Daughter by Nina Bawden is a great recommendation. Plus Children of the Stones is superb.

I came on to say exactly what this poster said. I'll go now

I think Tom's Midnight Garden is one of my favourite books of all time. I read it so many times when I was a little girl and it was just as magical when I read it again a few years ago.