It was a small room, much smaller than the rooms allotted to children in the two succeeding libraries, but I was a child, so I was small too. The children’s literature section was in the front of the building and the adult section was in the back, which gave children’s literature prominence. When I was growing up, the Cornell Public Library was located on Green Street near the movie theater where I saw Babes in Toyland. Ormondroyd depicts, that of the early Sixties and the Victorian one that preceded it.

I would go so far as to recommend Time at the Top to adults who would like to escape our current NYC with its Trumpian imprint for the two New Yorks Mr. I reread it several years ago and was delighted to find out that he had written a sequel, All in Good Time. I first took out Time at the Top when the Cornell Public Library was located next to the movie theater on Green Street and it remains my favorite children’s book. I’m not sure why he is not read as much today, but he deserves publicity. He is an extraordinary writer of fantasy who captivated my imagination as a boomer. Ormondroyd receives an obituary in the NY Times, it will be because of Time at the Top, David and the Phoenix, The Castaways on Long Ago, and his other books. While I loved reading David Wren’s interview of September 26 in Ulysses Town Talk with Joan and Edward Ormondroyd, I feel compelled to add more about his writing and how it is such an important part of children’s literature. The vanquished scoundrel returns, with sinister plans.Letter to the Editor in Ithaca Journal, October 10 Domineering cousin Jane forbids more meetings. Their parents meet and don't fall in love.

She and her new best friend Victoria Walker just know that when their parents meet it will be love at first sight, and the two families will become one.īut nothing happens the way it should. Shaw thinks, until I can get her to a doctor.

His daughter Susan must be madOnly a girl suffering from hallucinations would make a request like that, on top of a wild story about a good witch, an elevator that travels to 1881, a vanquished scoundrel, a dug-up treasure, and a distressed nineteenth-century family named Walker. 'You want to take me back to the nineteenth century, to marry somebody there?'

Time at the Top by Edward Ormondroyd