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The Enchanted Castle
by E. Nesbit
First published over a hundred years ago, this book is still utterly delightful. While its time-setting is clearly not ours - and one can see that not only in the physical setting but in the ways of the various adults who are important to the story - it has a timelessness in the playing and being of the children.
In short, three siblings find their way through a secret entrance to the grounds of the local stately manor (the "castle") and there they find a sleeping princess. She's a sleeping princess with a difference, but she knows the castle inside and out, so maybe her story is true . . . And when she magics up a room full of jewels and then turns herself invisible .... well, magic is definitely real even if she isn't actually who she says she is.
This is completely irrelevant, but I wouldn't mind betting this book is why my mother liked the name Kathleen and gave it to me. She always said, "I just loved the name" but she almost certainly would have read this book when she was a child. I shall claim it - she's a nice character.
In short, three siblings find their way through a secret entrance to the grounds of the local stately manor (the "castle") and there they find a sleeping princess. She's a sleeping princess with a difference, but she knows the castle inside and out, so maybe her story is true . . . And when she magics up a room full of jewels and then turns herself invisible .... well, magic is definitely real even if she isn't actually who she says she is.
This is completely irrelevant, but I wouldn't mind betting this book is why my mother liked the name Kathleen and gave it to me. She always said, "I just loved the name" but she almost certainly would have read this book when she was a child. I shall claim it - she's a nice character.