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title: "Loretta Mason Potts (New York Review Children's Collection) Hardcover – July 15, 2014"
brand: "mary chaseharold berson"
price: "$86.41"
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# Loretta Mason Potts (New York Review Children's Collection) Hardcover – July 15, 2014

**Brand:** mary chaseharold berson
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- **What is this?** Loretta Mason Potts (New York Review Children's Collection) Hardcover – July 15, 2014 by mary chaseharold berson
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Long-remembered images from a long-lost book, great for age 8 and up
*by M***N on September 6, 2015*

A lifelong mystery seems to have been solved: Over 50 years ago, when I was eight, I read a book in the library of the town where my family was vacationing (Hunter, New York, and the town library was housed at the time on the second floor of a school building). All I recalled of the book afterwards was that there was a magic entrance in the back of a closet that led to a bridge over a stream. If you went over the bridge, you became tiny -- the same size as the people on the other side of the bridge -- but if you happened to walk through the stream, you remained big. I remembered a few scattered images: a girl whose sweater had holes in it coming to live in a house; a ballroom with many windows, a rescue by someone who went through the stream and remained big. I never recalled the name of the book or the author, but if this was the book that is not surprising, as the cover bears two ladies' names but apparently no title! For decades, I have tried to find out what the book was, and people would say it must have been "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe." I knew that was not the case : this definitely involved a closet, not a wardrobe, and the bridge over the stream, critical to the plot, is nowhere to be found in Narnia.After all these years, practically nothing in this story was familiar to me, but I found it an excellent read, with insights into children's and adults' minds, and with some digs at wealthy suburban life in 1950s America. The 1950s environment (with its anxieties about slang and comic books) is quite realistic, but the magic is genuine, scary folk magic -- little people under the hill who entice children away from their homes -- that is not compromised or explained.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Worthy of a Twilight Zone episode, good for kids 8+ years
*by S***R on December 2, 2023*

This is book is, by some, to be a classic. All I know it was read to me by my mother when I was young and I *never* forgot it. It left an impression. It is quite impossible to describe the book without giving too much away, but perhaps you can think of this as a journey into another dimension, like the Twilight Zone. It involves a family that undergoes a drastic change when a previously unknown relative appears, and draws the young children into another world, strange and different.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ My favorite book in elementary school
*by Y***A on March 30, 2022*

I absolutely loved this book in elementary school. I found it in my school library but could never find it anywhere else. It's got a "vintage" flavor to it and the illustrations are quite old-fashioned as well. PS In elementary school I would have rated it 10 stars.

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