Children in a shipyard and children in a swamp
Dates: 2/7/01,4:02 PM through 2/12/01,6:07 PM (8 postings)
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FROM: "Fiction_L Administrator" <[removed]@webrary.org>
REC'D: 2/7/01, 4:02 PM
1) A children's fantasy novel, perhaps by Elizabeth Goudge. It describes the
adventures of some children who live in a shipyard where they need to build
a ship to save the yard. With the help of some magic "doors", the children
get help from various mythological figures - like Vulcan, the god of fire,
and get all the stuff to save the yard.
2) A "series" of I think 2 books, American authored, about some children who
come across some semi-abandoned houses in a swamp(?), meet the oddball
characters who still live there and end up living there and "restoring" the
houses.
I'd be so grateful for any help. When I say years searching, I mean 25 or
so, on and off!
Fiona Boorer
FROM: "Kelly Benson" <[removed]@htls.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/7/01, 4:23 PM
If it helps any, you're not crazy, I remember the second books. The oddball
characters lived and dressed in the past and one of them was named Minnehaha
(or something that sounded like that) and the kids called her Aunt. Darned
if I remember the titles of them though. (Big help I am! But maybe it'll
jog someone's memories.) But I didn't read them 25 years ago since I'm only
27, but since I was quite the little used book store buyer when I was a
child, these could have been that old, or reissues of older works.
Kelly Benson
Adult Services Librarian
Three Rivers Public Library District
Channahon, Illinois
FROM: "Alison Hendon" <[removed]@vabish.com>
REC'D: 2/7/01, 6:20 PM
Alison
who's very inerested to learn what the first book is
>
> >2) A "series" of I think 2 books, American authored, about some children
> who
> >come across some semi-abandoned houses in a swamp(?), meet the oddball
> >characters who still live there and end up living there and "restoring" the
> >houses.
>
>
> If it helps any, you're not crazy, I remember the second books. The oddball
> characters lived and dressed in the past and one of them was named Minnehaha
> (or something that sounded like that) and the kids called her Aunt. Darned
> if I remember the titles of them though. (Big help I am! But maybe it'll
> jog someone's memories.) But I didn't read them 25 years ago since I'm only
> 27, but since I was quite the little used book store buyer when I was a
> child, these could have been that old, or reissues of older works.
>
>
> Kelly Benson
> Adult Services Librarian
> Three Rivers Public Library District
> Channahon, Illinois
>
>
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FROM: "Kelly Benson" <[removed]@htls.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/7/01, 7:03 PM
This must be "Gone-Away Lake" and "Return to Gone-Away", both
by Elizabeth Enright, and recently reissued. These are wonderful
books, and Aunt Minnehaha and Uncle Pin are great characters.
Alison
who's very inerested to learn what the first book is
Those are it! Thank you. See it helped me remembering the character name.
But I sorry I can't help with the first one.
Kelly Benson
Adult Services Librarian
Three Rivers Public Library District
Channahon, Illinois
FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/8/01, 10:29 AM
>From: "Fiction_L Administrator" <[removed]@webrary.org>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Children in a shipyard and children in a swamp
>Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 15:55:12 -0600
>
>I've been looking for some children's books for years now. I know I read
>them!
>
>1) A children's fantasy novel, perhaps by Elizabeth Goudge. It describes
>the
>adventures of some children who live in a shipyard where they need to build
>a ship to save the yard. With the help of some magic "doors", the children
>get help from various mythological figures - like Vulcan, the god of fire,
>and get all the stuff to save the yard.
>
>2) A "series" of I think 2 books, American authored, about some children
>who
>come across some semi-abandoned houses in a swamp(?), meet the oddball
>characters who still live there and end up living there and "restoring" the
>houses.
>
>I'd be so grateful for any help. When I say years searching, I mean 25 or
>so, on and off!
>
>Fiona Boorer
>
Fiona, I can't help you with #1, but #2 is definitely "Gone-Away Lake" and
"Return to Gone-Away," by Elizabeth Enright. Two of my favorites!
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FROM: "Fiction_L Administrator" <[removed]@webrary.org>
REC'D: 2/8/01, 4:40 PM
Hello, Fiona,
I think the ones about the swamp are Elizabeth Enright's GONE AWAY-LAKE and
RETURN TO GONE-AWAY. Don't be put off by the work "lake". My personal
recollection from reading as a child is that there was a great deal of
swampiness, and that's borne out by the flap on the brand spanking new
edition... "a swamp choked with reeds....and on the far side of the
swamp...a ghost town".
HTH Gayle
Richardson Seattle Public
FROM: "Fiction_L Administrator" <[removed]@webrary.org>
REC'D: 2/8/01, 4:50 PM
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FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 2/12/01, 6:07 PM
Goudge's THE VALLEY OF SONG (1951) is briefly described as "a fable of
18th century boat-builders" in the Clute and Grant ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
FANTASY, so it may be worth taking a look at. I don't have a copy to
check, but perhaps someone else here does.
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
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