The Well-Wishers
9 best books like The Well-Wishers (Edward Eager): The River at Green Knowe, The Witch Family, The Whisper of Glocken, Return to Gone-Away, The Magic City, Cold Shoulder Road, The Swing in the Summerhouse, Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet, The Famous Stanley Kidnapping Case
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...
This book is sheer perfection. It has many of the same qualities as Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner -- young children who live out tremendous adventures in their imagination with characters who are typically treated by the author as though they are also real, though every once in a while perspective...
| Author | Carol Kendall |
| ISBN | 0152025111 |
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...
| Author | Elizabeth Enright |
| ISBN | 0152022635 |
A wish come true. That's what Portia thinks when her parents buy Villa Caprice, a tumbledown Victorian house along the swampy edge of Gone-Away Lake. A new house is always full of surprises, but Porcia is completely unprepared for the extraordinary things that happen when her family moves into a new...
| Author | E. Nesbit |
| ISBN | 1587170248 |
The first real book I ever read on my own; "real" in the sense of having a couple of hundred pages, not very many pictures, a plot, and some character development. I remember being puzzled by the switches between the everyday world and the fantasy world, and not understanding what was going on until about...
| Author | Joan Aiken |
| ISBN | 0440413419 |
Having freed the children enslaved in the northern mines, Is Twite and her cousin Arun return to Folkestone to find Arun's mother. But she has disappeared without a trace. There's plenty of evidence of strange goings-on now that the Channel Tunnel is open, and smugglers called the Merry Gentry have...
| Author | Jane Langton |
| ISBN | 0064401243 |
When Prince Krishna is called away, he leaves behind some strict instructions for the Hall children about one of the openings in the mysterious summerhouse: Keep Out! As Eddy and Eleanor swing through each of the other openings, they refuse to break the rule, even as their temptation grows. But when...
| Author | Eleanor Cameron |
| ISBN | 0316125415 |
No other Earthlings know the Mushroom Planet like David and Chuck. They have seen the green ball shining in the vast black of outer space. And they have walked in its giant mushroom forests.
Now they are going back. The flight is top secret. But someone's found out, and stowed away on the space...
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0440424852 |
Legit props to Snyder for giving the book this title. You know these kids are going to be kidnaped and the fact that the first half of the book is just a travelogue about the family moving to Italy really ramps up the tension. Every time they go on a picnic, or their parents leave for work, you think . . . this...
