Traveling Magic Author:Elisabeth Beresford Miss Button's boarding house seemed very gloomy to Marcus and Kate on first arrival: the garden was depressing, and beyond it straggled an even more dejected triangle of waste land , hemmed in by houses. Mr Snip, the lodger matched Miss Button's house. He was old and crotchety. But the other lodger was neither old nor gloomy. He was PECULIAR... more ». His hair was cut round like a pudding basin, and his table manners were strange to say the least. Then Marcus woke in the night and saw an owl - he was sure it was an owl, though Miss Button said there were no owls on the Heights - perched on his windowsill, and both children together - so it could not be a dream - saw an enchanted garden with fountains and flowering trees where the dismal Triangle should be. It became evident that life at Miss Button's boarding house was going to be full of surprises - the most surprising of which was Mr. Trevellick. What was he? What was he doing? And what was the meaning of the greenish smoke and fireworks smell that led them to his door?« less
Children have "magical" lives and these two children are no exception. A good look into the lives of turn-of-the-century English kids and THEIR magical thinking.