# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/21 "2012-09-23T13:20:09Z")
Joining young Wart in Sir Ector’s castle in the Forest Sauvage of _The Sword and the Stone_ would be amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/22 "2012-09-23T14:08:14Z")
I thought Hogwarts, but that would be an awful place to be a Muggle- assuming the castle is even visible to Muggles, which I think may not be the case. The Forest Sauvage does sound like it’d be most fun for an ordinary-type person. Count me in for there. ---
**Author:** ![Tara57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Tara57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tara57)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/23 "2012-09-23T14:22:50Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > _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. I’ll go with you. Let’s play with the pig’s bladder and roast his tail. Then we’ll go for long walks and pick wildflowers. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/24 "2012-09-23T15:42:05Z")
Well it was originally written for adults, but he’s also written kids books about the place so I’ll opt for Disc World. If there were such a place I’d pack my case tomorrow and be on the first mail coach going there. Otherwise I wouldn’t mind working at Hogwarts. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/25 "2012-09-23T15:55:53Z")
I believe the world of _The NeverEnding Story_ would be a nice place to explore after The Nothing is defeated, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/26 "2012-09-23T16:28:44Z")
I had about three places, and it’s been torture to pick just one. But, I finally decided that with just a week, I’d like to spend it in Diana Wynne Jones’ [Time City](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Time_City). That seems like a small enough place to explore during that week, but a great place to really find stuff out too. (My other two would have been from Tamora Pierce - either [Summersea, Emelan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emelan) from the Circle of Magic books or [Tortall](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protector_of_the_Small)during the Grand Progress as described in the Protector of the Small quartet. ) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/27 "2012-09-23T17:46:24Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > I believe the world of _The NeverEnding Story_ would be a nice place to explore after The Nothing is defeated, of course. That was my first thought. But the price you pay is too high. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/28 "2012-09-23T17:58:49Z")
I’d like to be a house guest at the Four-Story Mistake. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/29 "2012-09-23T18:51:13Z")
For just a week I have to go for Hogwarts. It would be kind of scary, but also wonderful. For long-term habitation I’d want the English village that Barbara Cooney illustrated Rumer Godden’s book _The Story Of Holly And Ivy_ with. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/30 "2012-09-23T20:29:45Z")
Never Never Land! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/31 "2012-09-23T20:42:15Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > 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. Sure you would. Come now, shall we run through the multiplication table together? ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/32 "2012-09-23T20:48:15Z")
The Phineas and Ferbverse ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/33 "2012-09-23T20:50:38Z")
The Academy in Space Cadet - I’d eat pie with a fork, practice free fall movement, and learn foreign languages in an afternoon of sleep study. Now to relax, I’d go somewhere nice and calm, like Puddleby-on-the-Marsh ---
**Author:** ![dzeiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/34 "2012-09-23T22:51:45Z")
Mister Wizard’s World. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/35 "2012-09-24T02:51:37Z")
Maybe the town of Vogelsang… or Tutter, Illinois. What? Am I the only one who grew up reading _The Wicked Enchantment_? Okay, how about _Poppy Ott and the Freckled Goldfish_ and similarly-adventurous tales from Leo Edwards? ---
**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 24, 2012, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/36 "2012-09-24T04:29:24Z")
I feel like stirring up a snakes nest so what if I lived in the land of the **Giving Tree?** Kidding. Please. Don’t throw um, wood chips at me. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/37 "2012-09-24T05:27:52Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > I’ve always wanted to hang with Meg and Calvin and Charles Wallace. I’d rather hang out with Calvin and Hobbes. Even if Hobbes turns out to be just a stuffed toy, Roaslyn is still hot. Or if she turns out to be too young, Calvin’s Mom would a good plan B 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/38 "2012-09-24T06:35:11Z")
Hogwarts, if I had magical ability. Otherwise, it might be fun to solve mysteries with The Three Investigators or the Trixie Belden gang. Or do science with Danny Dunn. Yes, I’m dating myself. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/39 "2012-09-24T07:52:31Z")
I think Busytown, the very Eurocentric 'verse of Richard Scarry, would be perfect. ---
**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 24, 2012, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557/40 "2012-09-24T08:25:38Z")
Ooooh can I live in Whoville? Just for a speck of time? This thread is so much fun. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-childrens-story-universe-to-spend-a-week-in/635557.md?page=3)