The Box of Delights
10 best books like The Box of Delights (John Masefield): Charlotte Sometimes, Elidor, A Traveller in Time, The House of Arden, Carbonel: The King of the Cats, The Little Bookroom, The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm, The Wind on the Moon, Mistress Masham's Repose, Jennings and Darbishire
| Author | Penelope Farmer |
| ISBN | 1590172213 |
It's natural to feel a little out of place when you're the new girl, but when Charlotte Makepeace wakes up after her first night at boarding school, she's baffled: everyone thinks she's...
| Author | Alan Garner |
| ISBN | 0152056246 |
| Author | Alison Uttley |
| ISBN | 0140309314 |
I love the way this author tells a children's story! It has the feel of a fairy tale, but using time travel as a means to connect a girl living in the 1930's Chelsea, England with the 16th century Tudor period. The book itself was published in 1939 and the author was one of J. R. R. Tolkien's...
| Author | E. Nesbit |
| ISBN | 1590172027 |
| Author | Barbara Sleigh |
| ISBN | 1590171268 |
Rosemary's plan to clean houses during her summer break and surprise her mother with the money hits a snag when an old lady at the market talks her into buying a second-rate broom and a cat she can't even afford to keep. But appearances...
| Author | Eleanor Farjeon |
| ISBN | 1590170482 |
| Author | Norman Hunter |
| ISBN | 0140367764 |
The wonderfully nutty, fabulously entertaining mishaps of Professor Branestawm. He's madly sane and cleverly dotty. Professor Branestawm is the most absent-minded...
| Author | Eric Linklater |
| ISBN | 1590171004 |
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...
| Author | T.H. White |
| ISBN | 1590171039 |
So ten-year-old Maria,...
| Author | Anthony Buckeridge |
| ISBN | 0755101537 |
| Author | Antonia Forest |
| ISBN | 0571206409 |
| Author | Ennis Graham |
| ISBN | 1594625425 |
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...
| Author | J.P. Martin |
| ISBN | 1590172396 |
| Author | Pamela Brown |
| ISBN | 0340727071 |
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...
| Author | Esther Averill |
| Author | Libby Hathorn |
| ISBN | 1842702327 |
| Author | Ivan Southall |
| Author | B.B. |
| ISBN | 1903252008 |
Si son seguidores de esta cuenta (o del contenido que genero) probablemente sepan que uno de los libros que más amo en la vida es El Señor de las Moscas. Supongo que es un libro súper "edgy" y de las pocas novelas clásicas (o clásicos contemporáneos,...
| Author | Toon Tellegen |
| ISBN | 9021483726 |
но любит танцы и полеты во сне и наяву, письма на ветру,...
| Author | Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy |
| ISBN | 1410208311 |
| Author | Wolf Mankowitz |
| Author | Emilio Salgari |
Molti sono i valorosi soldati cristiani nella città, ma più...
| Author | Mirjam Pressler |
| ISBN | 0440228573 |
In the two years Halinka has spent in a home for girls, she has learned not to hope for anything, and to hold tightly to what she has. But all Halinka has is herself, a blanket from her beloved Aunt Lou, and a secret...
| Author | Lygia Bojunga Nunes |
| ISBN | 9580408084 |
| Author | An Rutgers van der Loeff |
| ISBN | 0140301720 |