Oh, yes "The Dark is Rising" is a great series
Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series was great, too.
My brother was nutty about The Phantom Toll Booth, but I never went wild about it -- I preferred a different book, which was about an apartment building full of people who were all connected, in some way, with this reclusive old guy, and he set up an elaborate puzzle game for them to figure out where his money was; he set them up into teams of two, and the first ones who got there got to keep it... one of the main characters, as I recall, was an 11-yr old girl called Turtle <g> It was a very funny book, and there was lots of character development as they all re-evaluated how they interacted with other people. Haven't the slightest clue what it was called <sigh>
Thanks for the link to that Narnia essay, that was pretty cool
And add me to the list of Madeline L'Engle fans
The first three plus a lot of the follow-ups, though at some point I lost track. Had a terrible time figuring out how to pronounce Dennys (? one of the twins). <g> The one I remember was about dolphins and marine biology --
A Ring of Endless Light, I think it was.
PJ
