If anyone can tell me what this book is I’d be very grateful. I used to borrow it from the library and read it repeatedly when I was small and I’d like to read it again but I can only remember a few things about it:
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It had the word ‘Folly’ in the title and possibly a girls’ name.
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It involved a little girl finding a strange house with a strange little girl living there and they become friends. I think she finds it by climbing through the hedge?
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I think mazes were involved.
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The girl living in the house owned an albino rat.
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The copy I used to read had a lot of green leaves on the cover.
Can anyone of you clever cabbages help?
I know a lot about children’s books, but in order to help you I’d need the following information:
What age group was the book for?
Was it a picture book or a novel?
About how old is the book?
There’s a book called Phoebe’s Folly but it appears to be about the Oregon Trail and so doesn’t match your description.
It was probably for aroung 8-12 year olds, it was a novel, I was reading it about 10 years and to me the style of writing seemed quite old but I was probably a bit young to judge!
What a messy post: I meant 10 years ago.
Hmm, this is bugging me now because now I want to know what book it is too! There’s a book called “The Ghost of Follonsbee’s Folly” that was written in 1958, but I can’t seem to find a description of it anywhere because it’s so old.
On a side note, my searches brought up a book called Flounder’s Folly that has nothing to do with what you are looking for, but had a description so funny I had to post it:
"In spite of Little Mermaid’s advice, Flounder goes in search of adventure and gets more excitement than he wants. "
Hmm, a wild night for Flounder?
Why does this remind me of Animal House? 