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10 best books like Dido and Pa (Joan Aiken): Black Maria, The Whisper of Glocken, To Visit the Queen, The Diddakoi, Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep, She Was Nice To Mice: The Other Side of Elizabeth I's Character Never Before Revealed by Previous Historians, Grinny, In the Grip of Winter, Wormwood Mire, The Wizard in the Tree

Black Maria
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0006755283
A magical classic novel from the Godmother of British fantasy, Diana Wynne Jones.



On the surface, Great Aunt Maria seems like a harmless old lady.


But when Mig and her family go to visit, they soon learn that Aunt Maria rules Cranbury-on-Sea with a rod of sweetness that’s...
The Whisper of Glocken
AuthorCarol Kendall
ISBN0152025111
Carol Kendall's witty, epic tales about the race of people called the Minnipins are now available as Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classics. Now a new generation of readers can thrill to the adventures of the tiny folk who become mighty heroes. The original interior illustrations by Erik Blegvad and Imero...
To Visit the Queen
AuthorDiane Duane
ISBN0446608556
Traveling back in time to 1874 London to prevent an assassination plot against Queen Victoria, the feline wizards of Grand Central Station -- leader Rhiow and her able partners Urrah and Arhu -- must summon their powers to avert disaster in Victorian England, or else their archenemy, the evil Lone One,...
The Diddakoi
AuthorRumer Godden
ISBN0330398687
A read aloud of a childhood favourite.

Kizzy is from a traveller family, she lives with her Gran in a wagon parked in the orchard of Admiral Twiss' country estate.

She goes to the local school and is taunted and bullied. When the time comes Kizzy can't live with Gran anymore some disreputable...
Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep
AuthorEleanor Farjeon
ISBN0763601330

Elsie Piddock is a born skipper. By the time she’s seven, the tireless girl can even outskip the fairies and is rewarded with a gift of rare and lasting value. Can she use it many years later to save the children’s fabled skipping grounds from a greedy, factory-building lord? Charlotte Voake’s...
She Was Nice To Mice: The Other Side of Elizabeth I's Character Never Before Revealed by Previous Historians
AuthorAlexandra Elizabeth Sheedy
ISBN0070565155
Written by the actress Ally Sheedy (well, Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy) when she only twelve years old. It's been on my shelf for a zillion years, and I finally cracked it open.

It tells the story of a mouse who resides in the court of Elizabeth I and keeps a diary of her observations. There is a framing...
Grinny
AuthorNicholas Fisk
ISBN0140307451
Great Aunt Emma is no ordinary old lady. But why is she so strange? For a start, she just appeared, grinning, on the doorstep, as if from nowhere. Why have Mum and Dad never mentioned her before—after all, she is supposed to be Granny's sister, isn't she?Soon Tim and Beth start noticing more and more odd...
In the Grip of Winter
AuthorColin Dann
ISBN0099292203
(3.5) In this second book of the Farthing Wood series, the animals endure a harsh winter in their new home, the White Deer Park. When Badger falls down a slope and injures his leg, he’s nursed back to health at the Warden’s cottage, where Ginger Cat tempts him to join in a life of comfort and plenty. Meanwhile,...
Wormwood Mire
AuthorJudith Rossell
When Stella Montgomery returned to the Hotel Majestic cold and wet but exhilarated by adventure, the Aunts were furious.

Now they are sending Stella away to the old family home at Wormwood Mire, where she must live with two strange cousins and their governess.

But within the overgrown...
The Wizard in the Tree
AuthorLloyd Alexander
Basic plot: Mallory frees a wizard from being trapped in a tree, antics ensue.

I like this book more for a funny thing that happened to me than for the content. The book was good- a cute, little fantasy story- but nothing that'll really be remembered over time the way The Chronicles of Narnia or...
The Stones of Green Knowe
AuthorLucy M. Boston
ISBN0152055665
A beautifully realized finish to a great series. I don't do many "series," but Boston's writing is so evocative of a time and place, the feelings of comfort and serenity she conjures become addictive. The characters are indelibly etched in my mind - Grandmother Oldknowe, Tolly, Ping, Linnet, Toby and...
Soonchild
AuthorRussell Hoban
ISBN1406329916
So many people really like this book and perhaps it didn't help my copy being in black and white ( many reviews mention a change of colour as the story progresses which sounds like a nice idea ) but I found this story confusing.

Soonchild is an unborn child who is due to be born but is suspected to be...
The Obsidian Dagger: Being the Further Extraordinary Adventures of Horatio Lyle
AuthorCatherine Webb
ISBN1904233694
There seems to be some odd things going on in the city of London lately. Take the murders, for instance; quite peculiar. And those missing statues. What's going on there? And shouldn't St. Paul’s Church have a roof? Odd. Horatio Lyle, of course, is no stranger to . . . well, strangeness. In fact,...
Traveling Shoes
AuthorNoel Streatfeild
ISBN0440487323
The Forums (David and Polly, and the children Myra, Sebastian, Wolfgang and Ethel) live in a house called Apple Bough, and are a very musical family. David is a pianist, and considered one of the best accompanists in the country. Polly had been training to be a professional singer before her marriage:...
Fireweed
AuthorJill Paton Walsh
ISBN0140305602
I was ten when I read this book for the first time. It was recommended for me by my elementary school librarian, who knew I was into military history at the time, and who in hindsight was very clever to use this book's setting during the London Blitz to get me to read a story I otherwise never would have. Smart...
The Trolley to Yesterday
AuthorJohn Bellairs
ISBN0142402664
John Bellairs, the name in Gothic mysteries for middle graders, wrote terrifying tales full of adventure, attitude, and alarm. For years, young readers have crept, crawled, and gone bump in the night with the unlikely heroes of these Gothic novels: Lewis Barnavelt, Johnny Dixon, and Anthony Monday....
Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines
AuthorMargery Sharp
ISBN0440457173
Off on another grand adventure, this time to rescue Teddy-age-eight from the salt mines (better known as an underground prison). This time Miss Bianca and Bernard take two, very old, and unwanted, traveling companions along; an old professor and a geologist mouse – and a pair of human-sized mittens...
The Mourning Emporium
AuthorMichelle Lovric
ISBN1842557017
Venice is in peril. Bajamonte Tiepolo is back, and his baddened magic has spread across the globe, from the island of Hooroo in the South Pacific, all the way to London, where Queen Victoria lies dying.

Now two cities need saving by Teo, the Undrowned Child, and Renzo, the Studious Son of a Venetian...
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