Abbey Lubbers, Banshees, & Boggarts: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fairies
10 best books like Abbey Lubbers, Banshees, & Boggarts: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fairies (Katharine M. Briggs): The Charwoman's Shadow, Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life, Five Children and It, The Dark Is Rising Sequence, Finn Family Moomintroll, The Ghosts, The Box of Delights, The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm, Tales from Moominvalley, The Little Grey Men
| Author | Lord Dunsany |
| ISBN | 0345431928 |
Do not let the uninspired (and uninspiring) cover of the Del Rey edition to keep you away from this masterpiece, an exquisite counterpart for the first Shadow Valley chronicle.
This time the protagonist follows not the ways of the sword, as Don Rodriguez did in the first chronicle, but the ways of...
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
| Author | Alison Weir |
| ISBN | 0345434870 |
In this beautifully written biography, Alison Weir paints a vibrant portrait of a truly exceptional woman and provides new insights into her intimate world.
Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in Europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, Eleanor of Aquitaine was...
| Author | E. Nesbit |
| ISBN | 0140367357 |
I read Five Children and It with the Women’s Classic Literature Enthusiasts group and enjoyed it immensely. If you like Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and its series' mates by Betty MacDonald, you will like Five Children and It. The ideal child reader of this book is between second and fifth grade, with a fondness...
| Author | Susan Cooper |
| ISBN | 0020425651 |
This series is fantastic, and has been horridly overlooked, particularly so seeming that our current culture seems so fascinated with all things Potter. Not that The Dark Is Rising is anything like Harry Potter - not at all. It's thickly steeped in Celtic and Arthurian legend, is relentless in its exploration...
| Author | Tove Jansson |
| ISBN | 0374423075 |
"It's finished. There isn't a stamp, or an error that I haven't collected. Not one. What shall I do now?"
"I think I'm beginning to understand," said Moomintroll slowly. "You aren't a collector anymore, you're only an owner, and that isn't nearly so much fun."
My children and I believed...
| Author | Antonia Barber |
| ISBN | 0671707140 |
When Lucy sat in the attic, she thought she heard the sound of voices calling...
That's when she started to believe the rumors in the village that the old house was haunted. But no ghosts appeared - until the day Lucy and her brother Jamie stood in the garden and watched two pale figures, a girl and a boy,...
| Author | John Masefield |
| ISBN | 1405210117 |
Strange things begin to happen the minute young Kay Harker boards the train to go home for Christmas and finds himself under observation by two very shifty-looking characters. Arriving at his destination, the boy is immediately accosted by a bright-eyed old man with a mysterious message: “The wolves...
| Author | Norman Hunter |
| ISBN | 0140367764 |
Still one of the immortals of children's literature - Professor Branestawm's continues to amuse generations of young readers.
The wonderfully nutty, fabulously entertaining mishaps of Professor Branestawm. He's madly sane and cleverly dotty. Professor Branestawm is the most absent-minded...
| Author | Tove Jansson |
| ISBN | 0374474133 |
What a bunch of strange, opaque, elliptical little stories.
This is my first entry into the Moomin world, Jansson's books having passed me by as a child. I was dubious - the pastelly coloured covers of the editions I keep weighing in my hands then returning to the shelves in Unity have put me off...
The last four gnomes in Britain live by a Warwickshire brook. But when one of them decides to go and explore and doesn't return, it's up to the remaining three to build a boat and set out to find him. This is the story of the gnomes' epic journey in search of Cloudberry and is set against the background of the...
| Author | Alan Garner |
| ISBN | 0152017968 |
The Moon of Gomrath is the name of the one night of the year when the Old Magic is at its most powerful. Had Colin and Susan known this, they would have never obeyed the strange compulsion that drove them to light a fire on the Beacon. But now it is too late--the horsemen called the Wild Hunt are awake and on the...
