From: Robbie Mayes <robbie.mayes>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:44:36 -0500

This is my first time posting, though I've enjoyed this list serve for quite some time.

I don't believe it's been mentioned yet, but forgive me if it has. An excellent and harrowing novel about a boy accidentally traveling back in time is Jill Paton Walsh's A CHANCE CHILD. It also is as notable a book about child labor as Katherine Paterson's LYDDIE, though this one is set during the British Industrial Revolution.

While I have Creep on my mind (the title character of Paton Walsh's novel), I was very glad to see mentioned Nancy Bond's ANOTHER SHORE, which is probably the creepiest and most chilling story of this type I have read. She manages to convey intensely the feeling of being trapped in another age, and there's no return at the end. I wish there was some brave reprinter out there who could bring it back into print (it's rather lengthy).

Interesting that a seeming majority of the enduring time travel titles mentioned come out of the UK. I wonder: are there any picture books that have successfully and literarily been published that feature time travel?

Cheers to all, Robbie

Robert Mayes Editor Books for Young Readers Farrar, Straus and Giroux 19 Union Square West New York, NY 10003

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