tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265120169320473011.post7725362591861057838..comments2024-03-29T02:40:16.271-05:00Comments on Charlotte's Library: The Children Next Door, by Jean Ure, for Timeslip TuesdayCharlottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11835101886202235868noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265120169320473011.post-43809379119525956162017-06-22T17:19:48.077-05:002017-06-22T17:19:48.077-05:00i was looking everywhere for this book thank you! ...i was looking everywhere for this book thank you! reminds me of summer evenings in cornwall reading with my grandparents xlondongirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08499222072387109598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265120169320473011.post-47894239100655181172014-02-19T20:29:54.983-05:002014-02-19T20:29:54.983-05:00I am sad she didn't/doesn't write more lik...I am sad she didn't/doesn't write more like it!Charlottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11835101886202235868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265120169320473011.post-37878549973293887612014-02-19T16:16:01.936-05:002014-02-19T16:16:01.936-05:00Oh, yay! I should've known you'd know it i...Oh, yay! I should've known you'd know it if anyone would.<br /><br />Yup, that's just the cover I remember! (The old one.) My cousin and I spent one whole summer vacation day rereading the book together, with our heads tilted to one side and each of us reading one side of a page.<br /><br />We loved that book. So many time travel books we read really seemed to just involve the child going back in time, taking a look around, appreciating how darned different everything was, and then coming back to the present. This was the real deal.<br /><br />Thanks! Now I can go look for the book. (Google says the author is still around, and lives in an oast house in Kent. And what is an oast house? A house for drying hops, google says.)Sage Blackwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10847897945969895906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265120169320473011.post-11027683691300746962014-02-19T12:08:53.200-05:002014-02-19T12:08:53.200-05:00Here you go-- it is indeed called The Ghosts, and...Here you go-- it is indeed called The Ghosts, and it's by Antonia Barber. It was retitled The Amazing Mr. Blunden in the UK. http://charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/2008/09/timeslip-tuesday-ghosts-by-antonia.html<br /><br />And you can get it for a penny on Amazon!<br /><br />It is one of the most haunting, memorazble books of my childhood--it made a huge impression on me.Charlottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11835101886202235868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265120169320473011.post-62725375168218343572014-02-19T11:36:50.761-05:002014-02-19T11:36:50.761-05:00This is yet another of your Timeslip Tuesdays that...This is yet another of your Timeslip Tuesdays that reminds me of this one book I can never find... :-)<br /><br />It was called <i>The Ghosts</i> and my teacher had our reading group read it circa 1976. We each ordered it from Scholastic for 60 cents. I don't remember the author's name, and a search on abebooks isn't turning up anything.<br /><br />Anyway, two children move to the caretaker's cottage of a forbidding old country house in England with their mother and baby brother after their father dies. Then the kids meet, I think, two other children who turn out to be ghosts. <br /><br />And the two protagonists have to go back in time to rescue their own ancestor from a house fire (which I think occurred in the same forbidding old country house) because if they don't, they won't have been born in the first place. (A tricky plot point, that.) And there's an evil housekeeper who tries to prevent them.<br /><br />It was very well handled, to my ten-year-old mind, in that the fire was really scary and the children really had to do something; they weren't just going back into the past as tourists.<br /><br />...Does this sound familiar at all?<br /><br />Sage Blackwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10847897945969895906noreply@blogger.com