If you loved how Tolly’s quiet days at Green Knowe open onto friendships with Toby, Linnet, and Alexander, you’ll relish the hush of Tom’s Midnight Garden. When Tom hears a grandfather clock strike thirteen and steps into a garden that exists only at night, he befriends Hatty across time, just as Tolly bonds with the children who once lived in his house. It’s the same close focus on a single place and a single, tender friendship—an old home holding its memories close, and offering them to a lonely child.

In The Children of Green Knowe, the ghosts don’t explain themselves—they simply are, drifting in and out of Tolly’s life the way memories do in an old house. The Midnight Folk carries that same dream-logic: Kay Harker wanders his home by night, meeting witches, talking animals, and long-vanished sailors while chasing a lost family treasure. The enchantment is as unpinned and natural as Tolly’s encounters with the past, letting wonder unfold without rules or manuals.

If the ancestral layers of Green Knowe—the portraits, songs, and the flood turning the house into an island—made the past feel one breath away, A Traveller in Time will speak to you. Penelope visits relatives at a Derbyshire farm and drifts back to the Tudor era, becoming entangled with Anthony Babington and the peril surrounding Mary, Queen of Scots. Like Tolly’s meetings with the children of Green Knowe, her crossings feel natural, arising from the house’s own memories.

Part of the joy of The Children of Green Knowe is watching Tolly settle into love and safety with Mrs. Oldknow, the house and its history embracing him. The Secret Garden channels that same heart-deep comfort: Mary Lennox, and later Colin, find themselves restored by a walled garden and a few steadfast friends. If Tolly’s gently won homecoming moved you, Mary and Colin’s blossoming will, too.

Green Knowe feels alive—from its creaking rooms to the stories folded into its walls—and The Little White Horse offers that same feast of place. Maria Merryweather arrives at Moonacre Manor and uncovers a valley’s old feuds and gentle magic, with memorable companions like the irrepressible dog Wiggins and the wise cat Zachariah. If you cherished the layered, storied feel of Green Knowe, Moonacre’s lore will wrap around you just as snugly.