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[be_themoon]

Apparently, when I have no school to do but yet need something to do - I do sort-of school anyways. In this case, research for a paper that might never get written, about the prevalence of children's stories in which at the end most/all of the protagonists either choose to leave or are forcibly kicked out of the fantasy land they have found. exhibit a, naturally, being Narnia. I even have a timeline now! For series, the date is the year of the first book's publishing.

1865 - Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. English, forcible eviction.
1900 - Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. American, chooses to return home.
1904 - Peter Pan (the play) by J. M. Barrie. English, chooses to return home. (The book adaptation was published 1911.)
1950 - Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. English, forcible eviction.
1965 - The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper. English, forcible eviction.

Anyone know of other children's literature, at any point in time, in which the children find a different world and have to leave it at the end?

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[redsilverchains.livejournal.com]

But Dorothy later goes back to live in Oz, right?

The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper. English, forcible eviction.
Of all the leavings, this one upset me the most. :(

Pamela Dean's Secret Country Trilogy was the first thing I thought of. It was first published in 1985.

[redsilverchains.livejournal.com]

--The Secret Country Trilogy has American kids.

Oh, and also, William Corlett's Magician's House Quartet, 1990. It's set in England.

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

apparently she does! I had not previously been aware of this - I see that I shall have to look into this more. :D

I knowww! I just read Silver On The Tree yesterday, and I was quite upset.