# Did I imagine this weird book? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 7, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-imagine-this-weird-book/193573 "2003-08-07T13:09:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fizzygoodmakefeelnice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@fizzygoodmakefeelnice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzygoodmakefeelnice)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-imagine-this-weird-book/193573/1 "2003-08-07T13:09:43Z")
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: - It had the word ‘Folly’ in the title and possibly a girls’ name. - 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? - I think mazes were involved. - The girl living in the house owned an albino rat. - The copy I used to read had a lot of green leaves on the cover. Can anyone of you clever cabbages help? ---
**Author:** ![acrossthesea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@acrossthesea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acrossthesea)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-imagine-this-weird-book/193573/2 "2003-08-07T14:15:28Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![fizzygoodmakefeelnice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@fizzygoodmakefeelnice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzygoodmakefeelnice)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-imagine-this-weird-book/193573/3 "2003-08-07T14:34:30Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![fizzygoodmakefeelnice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@fizzygoodmakefeelnice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzygoodmakefeelnice)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-imagine-this-weird-book/193573/4 "2003-08-07T14:38:49Z")
What a messy post: I meant 10 years _ago_. ---
**Author:** ![acrossthesea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@acrossthesea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acrossthesea)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-imagine-this-weird-book/193573/5 "2003-08-07T15:29:17Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![NameAlreadyTaken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/97f17d/32.png) [@NameAlreadyTaken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NameAlreadyTaken)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-imagine-this-weird-book/193573/6 "2003-08-07T15:55:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by acrossthesea \* > \*\*Hmm, a wild night for Flounder? \*\* Why does this remind me of Animal House? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-imagine-this-weird-book/193573/7 "2003-08-07T16:06:37Z")
This is gonna be great!