Alison Uttley's A Traveller in Time: Maybe something about how Penelope's travels look to the other people around her - either the Babingtons, or her 'modern' family (I think it must be the 1900s in her childhood sections?). Or Penelope returning to Thackers as an adult. (Or anything, really, I love the melancholy, dreamlike feel of the book.)
(Also, out of interest, where do things that were once contemporary but are now historical stand? I mean, things like Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, that kind of thing?)
I swear to God, I looked at this meme and thought 'I wonder if anyone would remember the title of this book I had as a child, about a girl travelling back to Tudor times.' I am utterly bemused at the coincidence of it being the first post and someone else having read it.
Wow, that *is* pretty random! I put it down with a "no one's going to know what I'm talking about, but what the hell..." attitude, because it is a rather beautiful and unusual book & has stayed in my head all these years. I'm glad to have answered your question. (And it won the Carnegie Medal for the year it came out, too. So, good book, yes. :-D)
Alison Uttley's A Traveller in Time: Maybe something about how Penelope's travels look to the other people around her - either the Babingtons, or her 'modern' family (I think it must be the 1900s in her childhood sections?). Or Penelope returning to Thackers as an adult. (Or anything, really, I love the melancholy, dreamlike feel of the book.)
(Also, out of interest, where do things that were once contemporary but are now historical stand? I mean, things like Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, that kind of thing?)
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And, I'm sorry - I'm tired and I completely missed your prompt template at 1. there. *head!desk*
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