Forgotten Vintage Children's Lit We Want Republished! discussion

Looking for something in particular? Like your fiction youthful and from yesteryear? Then fire away! :)

(I'm personally always looking for 'folk horror' / fantasy, and especially any story that's based around a nursery rhyme or folk song...) ;)

The Satanic Mill isn't quite as horrifying as its title; I gave it four stars.

Right now I'd like more about kids who have a positive effect on their communities. For example the books in the Listopia where you and I met, Kids vs. Property Developers.

Cheryl wrote: "The Satanic Mill isn't quite as horrifying as its title; I gave it four stars.

Right now I'd like more about kids who have a positive effect on their communities. For example the boo..."

Ooh, I loved the Satanic Mill! You're right - not nearly as demonic as advertised. The German version (original) was simply entitled "Krabat" (main character), and I like that better. :)

Hmm... I'll have a think on your request! Perhaps someone here has a good suggestion for you! :)

I picked up Spirit Hunters at the library. I certainly hope it's not too horrifying for me; I'll try to remember to let you know.

Cheryl wrote: "I picked up Spirit Hunters at the library. I certainly hope it's not too horrifying for me; I'll try to remember to let you know."

Oh neat - I didn't know about that one!

It's pretty scary, imo, but it has a lot going for it. Now that I'm done I believe that I can recommend it to you. (I just don't know you all that well to be sure.)

Cheryl wrote: "It's pretty scary, imo, but it has a lot going for it. Now that I'm done I believe that I can recommend it to you. (I just don't know you all that well to be sure.)"

Good enough for me! I promise I won't think less of you if I don't enjoy it. :) It looks promising - thanks very much!

Unfortunately, it'll probably take a couple of years for me to get around to it*. I've been greedy lately... :D
*the upshot being that I actually prefer battered secondhand paperbacks anyway. I'm weird like that.

Capn wrote: "Cheryl wrote: "It's pretty scary, imo, but it has a lot going for it. Now that I'm done I believe that I can recommend it to you. (I just don't know you all that well to be sure.)"

Good enough for..."

I've just come across this book: The Dodman Quest. It's an author I have never come across before but the publisher's blurb shows it might interest you:

David's summer, looked forward to for so long, is suddenly ruined by illness. Life has become a misery. Then he is set a challenge by his lively neighbour Gill. Can they solve a puzzle which has fascinated people for many years – do ley lines really exist? Is it possible that prehistoric men were clever enough to find their way over great distances by laying out grids of straight tracks? Persuaded by the idea of proving right a fellow Herefordian, Alfred Watkins, who first suggested the possibility in his book The Old Straight Track, David accepts the challenge. He and Gill have no idea of the strange territory into which their detective work will take them when they set out together on the trail of the Dodman.

There is some evidence that she has written another called The Coleman Trail. There seems to be little attention paid to it online, not even an ISBN. The publisher is ELSP, which is new to me.

Len wrote: "Capn wrote: "Cheryl wrote: "It's pretty scary, imo, but it has a lot going for it. Now that I'm done I believe that I can recommend it to you. (I just don't know you all that well to be sure.)"
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Yep, LOVE it! :D Thanks, Len!

And ordered... oh dear. No self-restraint. :S It was very reasonably priced, you see...

http://www.ex-librisbooks.co.uk/ELSP.... - unsecured site, FYI. But interesting - very regional!

Capn wrote: "Cheryl wrote: "The Satanic Mill isn't quite as horrifying as its title; I gave it four stars.

Right now I'd like more about kids who have a positive effect on their communities. For ..."

Adam's Common is my favourite on the Kids versus Property Developers list. It's dual time-lined with some time-slip / nebulous Penelope Lively-esque space-time-continuum-jockeying (i.e. the infuriating-to-categorize-but-excellent Astercote). American Peggy moves to an industrial English town and is involved in a fight to preserve its one green space (the titular Common) from development. She is only marginally active in regards to the petitions, etc. (I think her Bostonian mother is the chief organizer), but it's Peggy's efforts and supernatural adventures that help to clinch it.

Thanks, I'll look for it!