I remember that Five Children and It and most of the late Victorian and early Edwardian children’s fantasies by E. The Carbonel books, “Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up”, by Barbara Sleigh (1906-1982), are in the tradition of magical adventures for modern children that were popular around the 1950s. (By the way, do you remember whether you read the British edition, the American edition, or was there a separate South African edition?) Thank you, Rakuen, for reminding me of them. I have enjoyed rereading the first two, and reading the third for the first time, very much. Fortunately, the Los Angeles Public Library and the County of Los Angeles Public Library between them have all three, so I did not have to buy copies. On investigating, I found that there was a third Carbonel novel that I had not known about and that, after being out of print for decades, all three have been reprinted recently and are again available. I had read them over fifty years ago and remembered enjoying them.
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