A Stranger Thing

by Ruth Tomalin, Robin Jacques 1920

A young boy, unhappy at school, spends several enchanted seeming snowbound days in a glass gazebo in a nature reserve.

82 pages, Hardcover

Published December 31, 1975

About the author

Ruth Tomalin is also the author of The Sea Mice, A Stranger Thing, A Green Wishbone, The Snake Crook, and for older readers, Away to the West and Best Country Stories.

Reviews

[Charlotte · Rating 4 out of 5]

a lovely time slip book, in which Kit, bullied at boarding school, sleepwalks one snowy night and finds shelter in an old glasshouse on a nature preserve that had once belonged to a naturalist. Snowbound, he makes use of the generous stores he assumed the preserve's warden had laid in, and spends a lovely few days in a refuge, delighting in the company of birds and the resident mouse.

Then he wakes in his own bed at school....and no one has missed him. The naturalist had used his greenhouse as a refuge for others before Kit, and though the glasshouse was destroyed years ago, it was there where and when Kit needed it...

I'd have given it five stars if it had been just a little longer!