by Elizabeth Winthrop
William is having a hard time adjusting. He's just found out that his beloved Mrs. Philips is leaving him to return home to London. She's been his companion since he was born, but now he's old enough to look after himself, and, hey, his parents are going to spend more time with him now. William is t...
I finally found this book and finished it! My 3rd grade teacher started reading this aloud for the last week of school and we got out of school for the summer before we finished! It has literally been driving me crazy since then. It was a pretty good book, I think I hyped it up a little in my head ...
I do remember reading this as a child and thoroughly enjoying it. Perhaps that colored my re-read, but in spite of the questions my adult brain kept bringing up, I couldn't help just thoroughly enjoying re-reading it again. We are dropped rather abruptly into the life of William, who's about to lo...
A fun, unassuming kids' story.It's hard to like the protagonist because he makes some pretty dumb choices in the first half of the book, but I can forgive the character (and the author) because the second half of the book is all fun.I should stop grousing, though. This is basic kid-lit. Not to be an...
A lovely tale about a boy who inherits a Castle from his nanny and then finds that the lead knight is real. He's only 9 and his nanny is about to leave him when he shrinks her to the size of the castle and then realises that really, he shouldn't have done that, in order to restore the knight and nan...
I definitely remember reading this when I was a kid, but I don't remember much about it.
I wanted a magic castle so, so much.
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