What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

What titles can you come up with where children travel to another world through a particular means?

Can you name who went where and how did they do it in what book?

For example:
Dorothy went to Oz via a twister carrying her in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Pevensie Siblings went to Narnia through a wardrobe in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Wendy, John, and Michael are flown to Neverland by Peter Pan in Peter Pan
Alice went to Wonderland through a rabbit hole and to the Looking-glass world through a mirror in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Milo drives to the Kingdom of Wisdom through the Phantom Tollbooth in The Phantom Tollbooth

TIA

Kingdom for Sale travels to a different world through a book

Edward Eager used that idea a lot.
In Half Magic each child goes somewhere different by wishing on a coin. Includes a desert island and jousting with Lancelot.
In Knight's Castle toy knights take the children on adventures through medieval-type places.
Magic by the Lake has - surprise - a magic lake and a talking turtle. The adventures include pirates, cannibals, Antarctica and going on a date. lol
Finally, The Time Garden has a magical garden with the herb thyme and another talking toad. This was my favorite as a child, they get to meet the "real" Little Women", among other adventures.
He has more but these are the ones I've read and remember.

Also, Mary Poppins has this happening several times. Once the magic vehicle is a compass. (But that story is very racist and doesn't translate well today.) There's also the famous chalk drawing that takes them to the park and for a ride on a carousel. A broken figurine that causes Michael, at least, to go into its time. And probably more. It's been a long time since I read that book.

I'm not sure A Wrinkle in Time is exactly what you're looking for, as the "portal" is a tesseract, a mathematical concept I guess you'd say, and the children have guides to take them through it. It takes them to other planets, including Camazotz.

If older teens count, Wildside by Steven Gould is about a high school senior who finds a mysterious portal on a property he inherited.

I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but Seanan McGuire has an interesting new book out:
Every Heart a Doorway

Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children
No Solicitations
No Visitors
No Quests

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else.

But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children.

Nancy tumbled once, but now she’s back. The things she’s experienced... they change a person. The children under Miss West’s care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.

But Nancy’s arrival marks a change at the Home. There’s a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it’s up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of the matter.

No matter the cost.

Daffodil wrote: "I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but Seanan McGuire has an interesting new book out:
Every Heart a Doorway

That's what brought this question to mind! :-) I just finished reading. Gave it 4-stars.

You already mentioned The Chronicles of Narnia and the Phantom Tollbooth. I love those!
The Lost Years of Merlin he finds the world between earth and heaven. He got there on a raft, although magic was involved too. That was one of my favorites growing up.
Bridge to Terabithia almost counts, right?

After a Wrinkle in Time is A Wind in the Door, where they end up traveling INSIDE Charles Wallace. After that in A Swiftly Tilting Planet Charles Wallace travels back in time on a Unicorn. And after that in Many Waters the twins go back to the time of the flood, via typewriter, if I remember correctly.

Red Hart Magic Chris (boy) and Nan (girl) go into the past by way of an enchanted dolls house that looks like an old Inn.

Steel Magic 3 siblings wind up going to Faery by way of a door into a small folly on an island.

Quag Keep 4 gamers wind up in the mystical land that their game is set in via enchanted dice.

Octagon Magic sort of meets your ideas.

Lavender-Green Magic 3 children go into the past by way of a magic maze.

Witch World While not a child, the MC in this book goes to another world by way of the Seige Perilous, one of the mystic stones that Merlin supposedly knew how to use.

100 Cupboards Main character Henry (and eventually others) enters another world via various cupboard doors (most of said doors are very different, on the same wall, and go into different parts of the other world). Also, they're just doors, not part of an actual cupboard.

The Tower of Geburah Friesen siblings enter another world through television screens (not an "electronic" world, nor some sort of tv show; just a portal). The other books in the series use other means to get to that world.

Magic Street the child travels through a backyard of an empty home in the neighborhood. Tom's Midnight Garden the child goes out into the garden at midnight.

The Talisman has a child and a companion traveling back and forth between worlds as they travel across the US. I can't remember how they get back and forth, though I'm pretty sure they can control it.

Bedknob and Broomstick the children and the elderly witch jump aboard a magic bed and turn the bedknob. (Book way better than the movie, though the movie had a bit of fun)

Golden Compass

In Alexander Key's novel The Forgotten Door, Jon fell from his world through a "forgotten door" (which seemed to be some kind of hole in his world) onto Earth. The Forgotten Door

Howl's Moving Castle they go through a special door in the castle. Where you end up depends on where you turn the knob to.

The MC in The Iron Fey series travels through a portal to fairy land, but she's a teen.
Jake in Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children goes through a doorway and ends up someplace else (technically), also a teen.
The MC in the Chrestomanci books by Diana Wynne Jones can "dream travel" to other words. He starts out as a young boy and you get to watch him grow up (kinda).
Lyra in the His Dark Materials travels to a new world through a portal.
While it is technically not a portal to another world the door to the garden in The Secret Garden feels like stepping into another world to Mary.
(Sorry am on phone and cannot link.)

His Dark Materials
They travel between worlds through rips between the fabric of each world.

Tender Morsels
There are two worlds which sit sort of parallel to one another. They enter the different realms through similar means to Lyra in His Dark Materials, through spaces or holes.

I think you could also probably include Harry Potter on this list...

In Hyperion by Dan Simmons, one character has a home with rooms on different worlds. He can use a teleportation device to move through his house. Hyperion

Try the Secrets of Droon series...they were around when I was in elementary school. Kids find a door to another world with a rainbow, a magic carpet, and a princess.

Neither of these series feature children, but they do involve travel to other worlds

Holly Lisle's World Gates Series:

Robin Owen's The Summoning Series:


Also found this in Listopia:
Doors, Portals, Gates

The Dream Merchant (De gevleugelde kat) by Isabel Hoving.
It involves both travelling to a different world as travelling through time in that other world.

In Two Moon PrincessTwo Moon Princess, a medieval Spanish princess travels to modern day California and back bringing war in her wake.

How about The Magicians series by Lev Grossman? Children in a "fictional" series of books travel to a magical world. A group of magicians in training discover that the world isn't so fictional.

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In the style of Paulsen's Hatchet series, a young boy is teleported to an alien world - the story develops from surviving in the wild to meeting the natives, there's a massive plot twist later.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe [book #1 of 7 book series]Chronicles of Narnia by C.S.Lewis

Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy
They opened a door and entered a world--Narnia--the land beyond the wardrobe, the secret country known only to Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. Lucy is the first to stumble through the back of the enormous wardrobe in the professor's mysterious old country house, discovering the magic world beyond. At first, no one believes her. But soon Edmund, Peter and Susan, too, discover the magic and meet Aslan, the Great Lion, for themselves. And in the blink of an eye, they are changed forever.

House of Dark Shadows (Dreamhouse Kings, #1)by Robert Liparulo [6 book seres]

Brothers-Xander,David, and sister-Toria are captivated by the many rooms in the old Victorian fixer-upper they moved into--as well as the heavy woods surrounding the house.
They soon discover there's something odd about the house. Sounds come from the wrong directions. Prints of giant, bare feet appear in the dust. And when David tries to hide in the linen closet, he winds up in locker 119 at his new school.

Then the really weird stuff kicks in: they find a hidden hallway with portals leading off to far-off places--in long-ago times.

And when David tries to hide in the linen closet, he winds up in locker 119 at his new school.

Then the really weird stuff kicks in: they find a hidden hallway with portals leading off to far-off places--in long-ago times.

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Things are read out of books - characters are also created from memory

Gypsies by Robert Charles Wilson.

Read it long ago--I don't really remember the details.

Investigators: First 48 Hours Most Critical In Locating Missing Children Who Entered Portal To Fantastical World

http://www.theonion.com/article/inves...

“As soon as we learn a child has disappeared down a pool of light underneath their staircase or through a strangely shaped attic door they had never before noticed, we must act fast to assemble search parties and cover as much enchanted territory as possible,” said investigator Joe Phillippe, who urged parents to contact authorities immediately if they believed their child had passed into a gleaming world of crystal palaces or been transported back in time to the age of King Arthur. “If they’re not found within that critical 48-hour window, children typically become disoriented in the thick fog and dense forest of a land where it’s always night, or they’re led astray by a well-dressed fox who promises to take them to a place where kids can play all varieties of games. At that point, they become almost impossible to locate.”

“That’s why it is so important that we devote all the necessary resources to recovering a lost child before they ride on the back of a giant bird to a secret island,” Phillippe added. “After that, it’s simply too late.”

"The Eternal Ones"

"Tunnel in the Sky" by Robert Heinlein. A group of teens taking an AP class in survival in high school (in an overpopulated future for which ET colonization is a population outlet necessity) are put on a wilderness planet through a stargate space/time portal for two weeks as their final exam, and get stuck there.

Going back a ways (1964), I remember "The Magic Tunnel" by Caroline D. Emerson, about two children walking through a tunnel in New York, going back in time to New Amsterdam under the governance of Peter Stuyvesant.

Here are a couple of lists on this theme:

Down the Rabbit Hole
Down the Rabbit Hole in Children's Fantasy

A doorway is created in Catherynne M. Valente's novel The Boy Who Lost Fairyland The Boy Who Lost Fairyland

In the Keep of Time This series was a favorite of mine growing up. My son has my copy of the 2nd book on his shelves. Kids slipping through gateways in the mist to go backward and forward in time.

The Time Keeper by Barbara Bartholomew
Jeanette and her brother use magical stones to travel through time and alternate dimensions.

Inkspell by Cornelia Funke- they travel to another world through a book
This one isn't with children, but in the Elric Saga there's a lot of super trippy inter-dimensional magical travel

Hominidsby Robert J. Sawyer (Neanderthal Parallax Series). Neanderthals from a different universe accidently pass through a portal in to our universe.

Abarat by Clive Barker: Candy is carried by a giant wave into the land of the Abarat, an archipelago where each island represents a different hour of the day.

City of Masks by Mary Hoffman: An old Italian notebook gives Lucien the ability to travel in his dreams to Belleza, a parallel universe version of the city of Venice.

Harry learns how to open mobius doors with his mental math, and (eventually) travels through space to other universes.

There's a mirror that lets beings cross into 'hidden' places. (If you have a "key" you can pass freely.)

Related to SoNo, one of the spin off series has travel to an alternate timeline .

In the same vein as above, in Gena Showalter's has the Lords entering other realms (Hell, Olympus etc.)

Winterling is children's fantasy where the main character Fer goes into a magical world through "The Way" (a pond). It's one of my favourite books ever

The Forgotten Door by Alexander Key. A children's sci-fi classic about a boy who falls to earth through a door from his home on another world. Great book.

Following this one!

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...

The Invisible Library series deals with doors to alternate worlds (steampunk London that also has fae magic and vampires).
If I remember correctly, the girls in A Great and Terrible Beauty learn to open a doorway to another world.
Alias Hook is a new take on the Neverland mythology.
In The Book of Lost Things a young boy enters a fairy tale type world.
The Riverman trilogy has children who travel to a magical world through a water portal.

Unless I'm confusing it with another book, Stray is a sci-fi YA that has dimensions/different worlds/gates.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... by https://www.goodreads.com/author/show..., one of my favorite YA science-fiction authors.

Furthermore

Stephen King's Dark Tower series is all about doorways between worlds.

Insight by Jamie Magee