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Has anyone mentioned The Dark is Rising Sequence? While Will and Bran turn out to be the Sign-Seeker and Pendragon, Jane and her brothers are ordinary children. More or less. And they all end up visiting some very mythic places, most in the past or outside of time.
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The following is a list of the titles of books, movies, or other forms of stories that have been mentioned in this thread so far. These items may have been published post-1978 and/or be not applicable to Chris' request, but they have been mentioned.
quote:Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars Alice in Wonderland [& Through the Looking Glass, presumably] Abadazad Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Magic Bed-Knob; or How to Become a Witch In Ten Easy Lessons and Bonfires and Broomsticks) BFG, The Bridge to Terebithia Captain N the Gamemaster Cat Returns, The Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Great Glass Elevator Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang (The Magic Car) Christmas TV specials Coraline Courtney Crumrin Dark is Rising series Darwath trilogy Escape to Witch Mountain Far Out Space Nuts Farthest-Away Mountain, The Fog Magic Forgotten Door, The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything, The Half-Magic Hansel and Gretel Harold and the Purple Crayon Harry Potter series HR Puffinstuff James and the Giant Peach Knee Deep in Thunder Knight's Castle, Knock Three Times Labyrinth Land of the Lost Lavender-Green Magic (and others in the Andre Norton Magic series) Lidsville Little Nemo Lost Saucer Magic by the Lake Magic Faraway Tree series Magic Meadow, The Magic or Not? Magic Tears Mary Poppins Mirrormask Miss Hickory Mural Master, The Narnia series Neverending Story, The Neverwhere No Flying in the House Old Tobacco Shop : A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure Once and Future King, The Pan's Labyrinth Perilous Guard, The Peter Pan Phantom Tollbooth, The Princess and the Goblin, The Scary Godmother Secret Country series Secret Garden, The Secrets of the Shopping Mall Seven-Day Magic Sir MacHinery Snow Queen, The Star Wars Talisman, The Tellos Time Garden Tom Swift series Tom's Midnight Garden Valley of the Dinosaurs Vision of Escaflowne anime series Well-Wishers, The Where the Wild Things Are Wicked Pigeon Ladies in the Garden, The Winnie the Pooh series Wizard of Oz series Wizard, the Witch and Two Girls From Jersey, The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, The Wrinkle in Time, et al Xanth series
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Sadly not written in 1978 is Lisa Papademetriou's The Wizard, the Witch and Two Girls From Jersey. A pity...it manages to poke fun at every element of the genre while simultaneously celebrating it. Posts: 6689 | Registered: Jan 2005
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Which makes me wonder when The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything was written and when it came out as a movie. Not really a children's story, but one she might have seen her parents watch.
Puffy Treat, I'll add yours to the list and go read up on it. The title sounds fun.
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Edited to add: TGTGW&E came out as a novel in 1962, but the movie didn't come out until 1980.
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From recent graphic novels we have some excellent examples of "children visiting a fantasy world"...but the 'recent' means they don't apply. Alas, alas.
Still, Scary Godmother, Tellos, Courtney Crumrin, and Abadazad are all worth checking out.
As is the somewhat more teen oriented The Vision of Escaflowne anime series.
And Studio Ghibli's The Cat Returns!
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The book I was trying to remember was "The Forgotten Door" by Alexander Key. Wikipedia has a list of his books.
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I remember one where the main character was trapped in a mall and all the manikins came to life. The Secret of the Shopping Mall or something like that.
Aside: CT, in case you're following this thread, are you currently open to receiving e-mail or PM? If you don't want to post your contact info, you can email me by replacing the "w" in my username with my entire (married) last name and adding AT cox DOT net.
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I forgot a true classic: The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson. The further Gerta travels in search of Kay, the more fantastical and strange the country gets.
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Edgar Eager and E. Nesbit both wrote fantasies involving child protagonists.
Funny that Amazon doesn't have the original publications dates, but a description says that Eager has been read for 40 years, and E. Nesbit is clearly one of his favorite authors. I think that Nesbit dates back to the 1900's.
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Oh, for sure, Dana. I'm emailing you now. My address that is will come from is from gmail via account ID <my first name> DOT <my last name>. Let me know if you don't get it right away.
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List updated except for swbarnes2's authors. (Do you happen to have titles on hand? )
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Edited to add: I typed "Edgar Eager" into Amazon and got The X-Rated Videotape Star Index III (X-Rated Videotape Star Index) as the first returnn, so I'm just going to wait on your specific input. )
quote:Originally posted by ClaudiaTherese: Edited to add: I typed "Edgar Eager" into Amazon and got The X-Rated Videotape Star Index III (X-Rated Videotape Star Index) as the first returnn, so I'm just going to wait on your specific input.
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Thanks, SenojRetep. We already have Half-Magic, but I'll add Magic by the Lake, Knight's Castle, Time Garden, Magic or Not?, The Well-Wishers, and Seven-Day Magic with the caveat that they may or may not be relevant to Chris' mission but have at least been mentioned.
Given that Chris will likely be writing like a fiend (rather than doing much reading research), I bet he'll be focusing on the ones he already knows. Regardless, I'll update that list with bare minimum plot summaries when I can.
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Huh. I remembered the details wrong, but the cover looks familiar, so I'm guessing that was it. First published in 1979, though, so it's out.
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The Magic Faraway Tree series by Enid Blyton.
quote: This is the story of three children and their wonderful adventures in the Enchanted Wood near their home in the country. The Enchanted wood grows very thick trees, and if you listen carefully, you can hear the dark leaves saying "Wisha-wisha"!! And in the middle of this woods is the most enchanted tree in the world. A simply enormous tree! "The Magic Faraway tree" which grows every kind of fruit and has a queer fairy-folk living on every branch!! Its top goes right up the clouds- and at the top of it there's always some strange land. You can go there by climbing up the top branch of the Faraway tree, going up a little ladder through a hole in the big tree that always lies on the top of the tree- and then, you are in some peculiar land!
quote:The Magic Faraway Tree is the biggest and the tallest tree in the world; right in the middle of the Enchanted Wood- and it's very magic indeed! But do you know why it is called the Faraway Tree?- That's because its top is so far away, up into the clouds, and always sticks up into some queer magic land - a different one every week! Isn't that exciting? The Land of Treats, where you can eat whatever you like, The Land of Spells, where you can buy spells for almost anything and such other lovely places! Its not fun always however. There can be strange lands, dangerous at times, ....
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The thread topic reminds me of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett; but The Secret Garden isn't actually a fantasy world. The kids do go into a secret locked garden which is like a different world to them, but it's not fantasy. Good book though, worth reading.
edit: apparently, you can read it online. I still prefer the dog-eared paperback, but nonetheless. Secret GardenPosts: 1431 | Registered: Aug 2003
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The Secret Garden is good up until the point it falls into the trap of much Victorian children's literature: It eventually deteriorates into endless descriptions of the characters stuffing their faces with good, honest country food.
I would suggest renting the 1993 live action film version instead. Far better.
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