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The New York Review of Books has been releasing lovely editions of children's books - some old classics, some new classics, and some newly translated into English - since the early 2000s. There are books by Rumer Godden and Madhur Jaffrey and Russell Hoban, and many more.
I could not find a single site with a list of all of them. The official site has newer releases, but not all the out of print ones.
This site includes a bunch that are out of print, but doesn't have all the new ones. (Page down for the complete list - the left-hand button allows you to select "show 100 entries," which is all of them.)
The series includes some books I love, some I do not love, and many I've never even heard of.
Books I have read:
The Little Grey Men and its batshit sequel, The Little Grey Men Go Down the Bright Stream, by BB
The Abandoned and Thomasina: The Cat Who Thought She Was A God, Paul Gallico. A pair of stories about intelligent cats and their adventures and travails. Both the main character cats survive, but there is a LOT of animal harm along the way. They're melodramatic and vivid and I loved them both when I was a kid, but The Abandoned more because that one involves a boy who turns into a cat and has great "what it's like to be a cat" scenes.
Bob, Son of Battle, by Alfred Ollivant. ALL the dogs die in a giant dog-on-dog battle!
Charlotte Sometimes, by Penelope Farmer. A dreamlike timeslip story, which I recall being unusually concerned with issues of identity and reality. I should re-read this.
An Episode of Sparrows, by Rumer Godden. An updating of The Secret Garden in which a pair of scrappy London kids find a bit of earth and begin cultivating it. I LOVE this book.
The House of Arden, by E. Nesbit. Fun time-travel story featuring a talking mole.
Loretta Mason Potts, by Mary Chase. Strange, surreal fantasy by the author of Harvey, which is about a man whose best friend is a six-foot invisible rabbit.
The Magic Pudding, by Norman Lindsay. Classic Australian fantasy about a bad-tempered talking pudding, an old sailor, and a wombat. I adored this as a kid, largely for the hilarious illustrations of the angry pudding.
What books have you read from this series? What would you recommend? What would you emphatically not recommend?
The New York Review of Books has been releasing lovely editions of children's books - some old classics, some new classics, and some newly translated into English - since the early 2000s. There are books by Rumer Godden and Madhur Jaffrey and Russell Hoban, and many more.
I could not find a single site with a list of all of them. The official site has newer releases, but not all the out of print ones.
This site includes a bunch that are out of print, but doesn't have all the new ones. (Page down for the complete list - the left-hand button allows you to select "show 100 entries," which is all of them.)
The series includes some books I love, some I do not love, and many I've never even heard of.
Books I have read:
The Little Grey Men and its batshit sequel, The Little Grey Men Go Down the Bright Stream, by BB
The Abandoned and Thomasina: The Cat Who Thought She Was A God, Paul Gallico. A pair of stories about intelligent cats and their adventures and travails. Both the main character cats survive, but there is a LOT of animal harm along the way. They're melodramatic and vivid and I loved them both when I was a kid, but The Abandoned more because that one involves a boy who turns into a cat and has great "what it's like to be a cat" scenes.
Bob, Son of Battle, by Alfred Ollivant. ALL the dogs die in a giant dog-on-dog battle!
Charlotte Sometimes, by Penelope Farmer. A dreamlike timeslip story, which I recall being unusually concerned with issues of identity and reality. I should re-read this.
An Episode of Sparrows, by Rumer Godden. An updating of The Secret Garden in which a pair of scrappy London kids find a bit of earth and begin cultivating it. I LOVE this book.
The House of Arden, by E. Nesbit. Fun time-travel story featuring a talking mole.
Loretta Mason Potts, by Mary Chase. Strange, surreal fantasy by the author of Harvey, which is about a man whose best friend is a six-foot invisible rabbit.
The Magic Pudding, by Norman Lindsay. Classic Australian fantasy about a bad-tempered talking pudding, an old sailor, and a wombat. I adored this as a kid, largely for the hilarious illustrations of the angry pudding.
What books have you read from this series? What would you recommend? What would you emphatically not recommend?
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