These are three of my favorite childhood books- the blurbs are from on-line sources.
WP Daily Prompt asks if I remember them and indeed I do! They’re on my bookshelf and I’ve had them with me for over 50 years.
A friend of the Persever family, Miss Eva Penalty, agrees to house-sit and look after the three children while their father is away managing a small tin mine and their beloved housekeeper, Mrs. Coverlet, is away participating in a baking-contest. (Their mother is long-since deceased.) The children are not happy about this, especially the youngest, Theobold “The Toad” Persever, because Miss Eva is a demanding, fastidious disciplinarian who interferes in their lives and feeds them too many vegetables. However, shortly after her arrival, Miss Eva’s personality changes: she develops chronic fatigue, spends all her time in bed, and also becomes happy and indulgent. The two older children, Malcolm and Molly, learn that “the Toad” has been practicing magic on her using a recipe he obtained by answering an advertisement from the back cover of a comic book
Sandy James loses a coat button. When her friend Janet Kramer gives her a bone button shaped like a pilgrim man from her grandmother’s button bag, she finds out that the button is really a man named Silas, who has been turned into a button by a witch named Betsy.
“Come Back, Lucy” centred on a little girl named Lucy who lived with her Aunt Olive in an old Victorian house. Upon the death of her aunt and the subsequent loss of her home, Lucy is welcomed into her cousins’ house though she does not know them very well and has difficulty feeling at home. As time moves on, Lucy is visited by the ghost of a Victorian little girl who wishes for Lucy to become her friend –
and invites her to ‘join’ her in the past.
