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10 best books like Pigeon Post (Arthur Ransome): The Edge of the Cloud, The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler, Circus Shoes, Knight's Fee, Minnow on the Say, The Haunting, The Little Bookroom, The Family from One End Street, The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm, The Wind on the Moon

The Edge of the Cloud
AuthorK.M. Peyton
ISBN0192750232
Christina and Will have escaped Flambards for London with their heads full of dreams, only to find a whole new set of problems. Not only the basic ones of work and a place to live, but Will's single-minded ambition to desing and pilot flying machines, which terrify Christina every time he leaves the ground....
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler
AuthorGene Kemp
ISBN0745103308
An interesting children's book from the 1970s, which succeeds largely on the strength of it's fine grasp of child psychology and language, and its naturalistically rambling, inconclusive plot. I liked it as a child because it felt less like a "story", and more like a slice of life of a real person - albeit...
Circus Shoes
AuthorNoel Streatfeild
ISBN0440414229
This is one of those "hovering on the edge of ugliness" Streatfeild books, where everyone seems to blame these two kids for things entirely out of their control. It's awful.

And they have to be the ones to be the adults, to forgive and overlook and make their own places. I want to cry when Santa has...
Knight's Fee
AuthorRosemary Sutcliff
ISBN0192720384
Hidden behind the battlements on the roof of the gatehouse crouched Randal the dog-boy, watching for the arrival of Hugh Goch, the new Lord of Arundel Castle. As the cavalcade approached the great gateway, a small thing happened; Randal dropped the fig he had been eating on to the nose of Hugh's mettlesome...
Minnow on the Say
AuthorPhilippa Pearce
ISBN0140310223
David can't believe his luck when a worn wooden canoe mysteriously appears on the banks of the River Say behind his house. With summer stretching endlessly before him, it seems too good to be true.Soon there is another boy--Adam, the Minnow's rightful owner. Adam wants his boat back...but something...
The Haunting
AuthorMargaret Mahy
ISBN0140363254
If I could use one word to describe this novel... it would be - odd. Which makes it genuinely discordant and spooky for a psychological drama, dotted with very beautiful chilling descriptions... but the strange choice to make the novel carry itself entirely on dialogue means it runs out of steam very...
The Little Bookroom
AuthorEleanor Farjeon
ISBN1590170482
In The Little Bookroom, Eleanor Farjeon mischievously tilts our workaday world to reveal its wonders and follies. Her selection of her favorite stories describes powerful—and sometimes exceedingly silly—monarchs, and commoners who are every bit their match; musicians and dancers who live...
The Family from One End Street
AuthorEve Garnett
ISBN0141317167
Eve Garnett's 1937 novel The Family from One End Street might well read a bit too obviously episodically for those readers who always do desire and crave a specific and mostly straightforward plot line in a novel, and is also and indeed (as well as naturally) an object, a book of its time, of late 1930s England...
The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm
AuthorNorman Hunter
ISBN0140367764
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...
The Wind on the Moon
AuthorEric Linklater
ISBN1590171004
Winner of the Carnegie Medal

In the English village of Midmeddlecum, Major Palfrey asks his two daughters to behave themselves while he is off at war. Sighs Dinah, "I think that we are quite likely to be bad, however hard we try not to be," and her sister Dorinda adds helpfully, "Very often, when...
A Hundred Million Francs
AuthorPaul Berna
ISBN0370009428
4.5 stars. A gang of French children have a favourite game. One of them owns what must be an old rocking horse or carousel horse that has been welded onto a chassis with three wheels. The horse having lost it's head does not lessen the children's enjoyment at all, they spend their days riding their horse...
Jennings and Darbishire
AuthorAnthony Buckeridge
ISBN0755101537
Prehistoric clodpoll! ‘What did you want to go and make a frantic bish like that for’ Rule number nine million and forty-seven: Any boy beetling into class with twelve slippery raw fish shall hereby be liable to be detained during Mr Wilkins’ pleasure.? Jennings turns journalist when he receives...
The Cuckoo Clock
AuthorEnnis Graham
ISBN1594625425
I didn't read this edition but a 1930 one with Walter Crane Illustrations (of which I would've liked more).

It was neither as preachy as much Victorian children's literature nor as exciting as the best. There were some obvious didactic efforts and some interesting or pretty scenes, but overall...
The Swish of the Curtain
AuthorPamela Brown
ISBN0340727071
My thanks to Steerforth Press/Pushkin Press and Netgalley for a review copy of this book.

The Swish of the Curtain is the first of the Blue Door series of books by Pamela Brown, first published in the 1940s. This is a series a goodreads friend of mine had been telling me about for years but I hadn’t...
The Little Grey Men
AuthorB.B.
ISBN0192719467
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...
Bijna iedereen kon omvallen
AuthorToon Tellegen
ISBN9021483726
Лучшая книга на свете. Потому что и для детей, и для подростков, и для всех, кто прошел дальше, но...
но любит танцы и полеты во сне и наяву, письма на ветру,...
Il Capitan Tempesta
AuthorEmilio Salgari
Famagosta è rimasta l'ultimo baluardo cristiano sull'isola di Cipro, tutt'intorno alla città si estende il campo saraceno e ogni giorno viene fatto grande uso di polvere da sparo e palle di cannone da parte di entrambi gli eserciti.
Molti sono i valorosi soldati cristiani nella città, ma più...
Clorofila del Cielo Azul
AuthorBianca Pitzorno
ISBN8420790079
Una metropoli dove lo smog ha distrutto quasi completamente la vita vegetale; un botanico socio della Lega dei Nemici dei bambini, Cani, Gatti e Animali Affini; due fratellini che hanno sbagliato indirizzo; un'intraprendente portinaia; una piccola extraterrestre che rischia di morire per colpa...
Something's Fishy, Hazel Green
AuthorOdo Hirsch
ISBN1582349479
Every year Mr. Petrusca-the best fishmonger in town-finds the biggest lobsters for one of his very best customers, Mr. Trimble. But when a thief steals the two splendid lobsters, Mr. Petrusca is more upset than anyone can understand. Hazel Green knows there's something fishy going on, but what could...
The Ship That Flew
AuthorHilda Lewis
When my mother and grandparents when on sabbatical in Nottingham, they lived next door to Hilda Lewis who gave my family several copies (the book came out in 1939). Years later when I was little my mother pulled this book out and it became one of my most beloved and cherished books. It is one of the most enchanting...
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
AuthorPenelope Lively
ISBN1405225424
Annual re-read. First encountered at the age of ten, in primary school (in fact I still have Mrs. Halsall's own copy, sorry, Miss) and loved since. Lively's enduring ghost story tells of James Harrison being haunted by a bad-tempered C17th poltergeist whose distaste of the modern world manifests itself...
The Wool-Pack
AuthorCynthia Harnett
ISBN0140301534
Considering how important the wool trade was to the development of early-modern Britain, it is surprising how few novels deal with the business of wool. Those written for young readers are even scarcer. The Wool-Pack helps fill the gap.

This is historical fiction rather than history, written...
A Stranger at Green Knowe
AuthorLucy M. Boston
ISBN0152025898
L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. Now the children of Green Knowe--both alive and ghostly--are back in appealing new editions.
The spooky original...
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