I too remember this from childhood.
I too was never sure if it was real, or just the memories of a dream.....
I never realised it was actually a book by E Nesbitt :/ as I was very young at the time!!!!! I have searched for this for years and years because I couldn't remember the name, and just now it came to me at last :) I hope they release it on DVD one day, because it is so magical, mysterious, haunting, weird, exciting.....
In the meantime I will get the book out of the library. I hope it lives up to my memories :/ If you like The Chronicles of Narnia, Tom's Midnight Garden, or Moondial, then you might like this. From the same author as 'The Pheonix and the Carpet' and 'Five Children and It' but slightly more unsettling (and nothing like 'The Railway Children'!!!).
I too was never sure if it was real, or just the memories of a dream.....
I never realised it was actually a book by E Nesbitt :/ as I was very young at the time!!!!! I have searched for this for years and years because I couldn't remember the name, and just now it came to me at last :) I hope they release it on DVD one day, because it is so magical, mysterious, haunting, weird, exciting.....
In the meantime I will get the book out of the library. I hope it lives up to my memories :/ If you like The Chronicles of Narnia, Tom's Midnight Garden, or Moondial, then you might like this. From the same author as 'The Pheonix and the Carpet' and 'Five Children and It' but slightly more unsettling (and nothing like 'The Railway Children'!!!).