Name of children's book I read in the 70s?

Question

Recent film versions of books like The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe stirred up memories of another book I read as a teen about 25-30 years ago. All I remember about it is that it involved young characters, a tree swing? or a gazebo? and time travel or traveling to another place/dimension similar to Narnia. Could it possibly have involved a child's drawings coming to life but still being 2-dimensional. If anyone knows the name of this book, let me know - it's bugging me. Thanks! I'm a woman, could have been more of a "girl's book."

Answer 1

I think you're remembering "The Swing in the Summerhouse" by Jane Langton. It's actually the second book in a series, all involving the same children. It was recently reprinted, but looks like it's out of print again already, though you can find used copies at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0064401243/24680e-20

The titles in the series are

1 Diamond in the Window, The
2 Swing in the Summerhouse, The
3 Astonishing Stereoscope, The
4 Fledgling, The
5 Fragile Flag, The
6 Time Bike, The
7 Mysterious Circus, The

I think your other memory, of drawings coming to life, may be "Marianne Dreams" by Catherine Storr: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140302093/24680e-20

Answer 2

My area of the Mountain through Jean Craighead George Sam Gribley runs remote from his domicile in ny city interior the month of would. He leaves with only a penknife, a ball of cord, a hatchet, $40 he had saved promoting mag subscriptions, and a flint and metal set that he had offered at a chinese product proprietor's save interior the city. Sam receives a vacation with a guy utilising a truck north of ny in search for of his relatives's abandoned and overgrown farm interior the Catskill Mountains. He hikes to the Catskills and spends a lonely first nighttime in his small hemlock lean-to (a small tent-like structure that consists of a hemlock bough and a stump). He catches 5 trout, yet fails to commence a hearth to cook dinner them.... searching the Gribley farm, Sam establishes a living interior the stump of an titanic previous hemlock tree. He makes use of hand-awl and hearth to improve a organic hollow right into a house with area for a mattress, shops of amassed foodstuffs, or maybe a small hearth... Sam lives a free life interior the desert for more desirable than a three hundred and sixty 5 days jointly with his puppy, a peregrine falcon named Frightful, whom he had captured as a chick and hand-reared. His pals interior the wooded area contain the free-ranging musteline "Baron" Weasel, and a raccoon he names Jessie Coon James.... a lengthy time period after the unique novel became printed, George wrote 4 sequels: our area of the mountainOn the a concepts area of the Mountain (1991), Frightful's Mountain (1999), Frightful's Daughter (2002) and Frightful's Daughter Meets the Baron Weasel (2007). This looks to finish the sequels

Answer 3

Doesn't sound like The Secret Garden. If you don't have luck here, check with your local Children's Librarian.

Answer 4

The Secret Garden? Just guessing.

Answer 5

I believe you are refering to Bridge to Terrabithia. A boy and a girl used a swing to go to an island where they used their imagination to create a kingdom.