Post by vixen1 on Apr 25, 2020 9:33:14 GMT
Ok, I have been desperately trying to track down 2 books I remember as a child but cannot remember the titles of.
FIRST: This book was about a house of witches who needed to make money and decided to open a school for young princes and princesses. One of the witches was very excited about giving the children lists of things to learn by heart. The children were made to so chores etc and I seem to remember them rebelling in some ways. Thats all I remember. I remember the illustraions seeming old fashioned to me even as a child. I am having no luck searching anywhere online.
SECOND:This may have been a series. I remember little people called Lilliputians living with some children who were in a house in London with their grandfather and their servants. 3 little people one called Philtrum. I remember at one point the grandfather compained about the speed of motor cars, which were new. Also at one point the children fed the little people and the female lilliputian ate chicken which got hersick so the little girl (Phillippa?) made herself sick so they coul get medicine into the house. Also a villain names Harwell Mincing (?) and possible his sister (?) were desperately trying to capture the little people to use them as a freak show. At one point when the little people were missing the children went out into the street and prayed with the salvation army for them to come back. At the end of the book the liliputians stayed behind in the house when the children moved without telling them. Thats all I have for that one. Whenever I try to google I just get gullivers travels which I'm sure is not it.
FIRST: This book was about a house of witches who needed to make money and decided to open a school for young princes and princesses. One of the witches was very excited about giving the children lists of things to learn by heart. The children were made to so chores etc and I seem to remember them rebelling in some ways. Thats all I remember. I remember the illustraions seeming old fashioned to me even as a child. I am having no luck searching anywhere online.
SECOND:This may have been a series. I remember little people called Lilliputians living with some children who were in a house in London with their grandfather and their servants. 3 little people one called Philtrum. I remember at one point the grandfather compained about the speed of motor cars, which were new. Also at one point the children fed the little people and the female lilliputian ate chicken which got hersick so the little girl (Phillippa?) made herself sick so they coul get medicine into the house. Also a villain names Harwell Mincing (?) and possible his sister (?) were desperately trying to capture the little people to use them as a freak show. At one point when the little people were missing the children went out into the street and prayed with the salvation army for them to come back. At the end of the book the liliputians stayed behind in the house when the children moved without telling them. Thats all I have for that one. Whenever I try to google I just get gullivers travels which I'm sure is not it.
