The first in a series of eight books, "Mary Poppins" by P.L. Travers was published in 1934. According to Wikipedia, Chapter Six, "Bad Tuesday," was rewritten twice: The original story in the 1934 edition contained a variety of cultural and ethnic types of Chinese, Native Alaskan or Inuit, sub-Saharan Africans, and Native Americans. Travers responde…

Copyrighted in 1962, The Diamond in the Window is one of several children's books written by Jane Langton. Set in Concord, Massachusetts, the story is about Eleanor (10) and Eddy (8) Hall, orphaned siblings who live in a grand but shabby Victorian house with their Aunt Lily and her older brother Uncle Freddy. The children discover a secret room at …

Linnets and Valerians, written by Elizabeth Goudge, was published in 1964 by Coward-McCann, Inc., New York. I received the book as a 12-year-old and was thoroughly enchanted by the story of the Linnet children set in the countryside of Devonshire, England, in 1912. I hope you will be enchanted, too!

Written by George MacDonald and first published in 1926 by MacMillan, The Princess and The Goblin is a wonderful tale of a young girl, a young boy, and goblins. Filled with mystery and magic, surprises and suspense, the book was a gift to my mother when she was 10 years old. She read it to me and my brothers when we were children, and I read it to …

Published in 1910, The Secret Garden was written by Frances Hodgson Burnett and tells the story of an unhappy and unloved, orphaned young girl in Yorkshire, England.