Helen Cresswell wrote children's fantasy, comedy and supernatural fiction, often giving ordinary British family life a strange or chaotic edge. Lizzie Dripping follows an imaginative girl who befriends a witch that other people may not be able to see, while Moondial sends Minty into a time-slip story involving children from different periods around an old sundial. The Bagthorpe Saga begins with Ordinary Jack and turns an eccentric, fiercely competitive family into increasingly elaborate domestic farce. Cresswell also wrote The Secret World of Polly Flint and adapted several of her own and other writers' books for television. Her prose is lively, funny and accessible, with fantasy often entering through familiar houses, villages and family arguments. Her work fits classic children's fantasy, comic family series and supernatural time-slip fiction. Read more Less
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