# Pick a children's-story universe to spend a week in. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 23, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557 "2012-09-23T01:11:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/1 "2012-09-23T01:11:06Z")
I need a favor. During a recent cross-time trip to Narnia to [del]loot the White Witch’s palace of useful magical trinkets[/del] assist Father Christmas in the distribution of Yule gifts, I carelessly left behind my copy of the Season 5 _Firefly_ BluRay set. I’m going to have a hard time replacing it. The Universal Library was recently destroyed by several hundred million flaming bees, and the alternate Earth where Firefly lasted that long in the first place was obliterated by a mysterious antimatter meteor–two events in which, incidentally, I deny any involvement. Nor can I just pop back into Narnia. My visit was timed to occur during the six hours or during which Aslan was dead, and I find it best to avoid the Great Lion’s jurisdiction at any other time. In short, I need a volunteer to take a two-seater Burroughs-Libby buggy there, grab the dics, and bring 'em back. Whoever agrees will be allowed use of the buggy for one week of his or her personal time, during which you’ll be able to visit any children’s-story universe you want – Narnia, _Where the Wild Things Are_, etc – and take whatever adventures come to you. And, of course, you can take a guest. Any takers? If yes, where will you go? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/2 "2012-09-23T01:16:34Z")
The _Peanuts_-verse. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/3 "2012-09-23T01:27:55Z")
_Little House on the Prairie_. The books, not the TV abomination. I’d like to make butter with Ma and color it with carrot juice, watch Pa make bullets and listen to his fiddle as I fell asleep. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/4 "2012-09-23T01:31:18Z")
The Tom Swift Jr novels. Or possibly the Heinlein Juveniles. Or Andre Norton’s Solar Queen series. Lots o good sci-fi for kids. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/5 "2012-09-23T01:36:49Z")
The 100 Acre Wood. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/6 "2012-09-23T01:39:29Z")
Oh, I’d stay the week in Narnia. But there are a lot of others I’d wish I could see as well. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/7 "2012-09-23T01:43:09Z")
I’d probably head for Oz. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/8 "2012-09-23T01:43:42Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Oh, I’d stay the week in Narnia. But there are a lot of others I’d wish I could see as well. Best specify exactly when in Narnia. I’m not giving you hosers access to the verniers, so you’ll have to use the voice controls; and if you just say “Narnia” without being specific, you might wind up during the Hundred Year Winter, which would be a bad place for at least four reasons I can come up with off the top of my head. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/9 "2012-09-23T02:27:08Z")
Narnia, on the Dawn Treader, for a week sometime post-dragon, but before they get too far to the east. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/10 "2012-09-23T03:45:59Z")
Hogwarts. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/11 "2012-09-23T04:01:57Z")
Centerburg, home of [Homer Price.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Price) ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/12 "2012-09-23T04:32:16Z")
Whangdoodleland from The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles. After the events of the book. Or Neverland, as seen in Hook, only to visit the pirate town. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/13 "2012-09-23T04:35:28Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > The 100 Acre Wood. This. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/14 "2012-09-23T04:36:12Z")
I’ve always wanted to hang with Meg and Calvin and Charles Wallace in a\*\*\* Wrinkle in Time.\*\*\* Not sure I want to encounter IT though. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/15 "2012-09-23T06:51:57Z")
I want season tickets to The Muppet Show. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/16 "2012-09-23T06:55:16Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > Hogwarts. That would be good, too. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/17 "2012-09-23T06:57:42Z")
I was leaning toward Oz, but I tripped over a vine and fell into the world of the Swiss Family Robinson. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/18 "2012-09-23T08:23:30Z")
The beautiful and cozy, though melancholy, rural landscapes of “Wind in the Willows”, “Frog and Toad…”, and 100 Acre Wood appeal to me, even though they don’t offer anything otherwordly beyond talking animals. For otherworldly stuff, I was going to suggest Earthsea – so much to map and explore - but only if I could pack a lot of Dramamine. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/19 "2012-09-23T08:31:38Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Best specify exactly when in Narnia. I’m not giving you hosers access to the verniers, so you’ll have to use the voice controls; and if you just say “Narnia” without being specific, you might wind up during the Hundred Year Winter, which would be a bad place for at least four reasons I can come up with off the top of my head. “Narnia, during the reign of Queen Swanwhite; grace-and-favour apartment in Cair Paravel”. That do you? ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/20 "2012-09-23T10:51:02Z")
I would go to the world of P.L. Travers’s Mary Poppins stories. But what makes you think I want to raid Jadis’s castle for you? I think your disks are probably toast, Skald. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557.md?page=2)