Children's book

[fairkatrina]

I remember reading it about 10-15 years ago, it was sort of 'Weirdstone of Brisengamen'-ish, there was a group of kids who went to some mad fantasy world and had to follow a mad set of instructions, which included getting past a sphinx by out-riddling it, and climbing through the eye of a needle (which turned out to be a tower of rocks). Not much to go on I'm afraid!

[mandimoo]

jeez, ive just posted a question and had a flick through others and seen this. do you remember a child being thrown from a futuristic flying car and him being so badly injured he should die, but he was fixed by their modern medicine? and at one stage one of them went completely flat, like he was compressed by something and he totally could not breathe? also something about moving from home to home via tunnels and something like at the end one of them had to leave a friend theyd made in the other world, and was hypnotized to forget everything and that was a sad ending? was there more than one book?

[mandimoo]

i just googled it based on your title - its actually Brisingamen. im off to order it now!

[yinyang]

Might be totally off track here but could it be Rebecca's World/
I seem to remember it was about a girl who got transported to a very weird place by looking down the wrong end of her dad's telescope or something. There she met some odd people and they went on some kind of quest. The sphinx doesn't ring any bells with this but the eye of the needle does and I also seem to remember they were warned not to fall into 'bad habits' - which turned out to be two seemingly nice old people who told them to eat lots of sweeties and not brush their teeth and were just trying to throw them off track.
Anyway, I'm rambling now and it's probably not even the one you are looking for. Sorry. x

[fairkatrina]

Thanks all, sorry MANDIMOO don't have a clue about yours, and the Weirdstone of Brisingamen is a book I own, the other one just reminds me a bit of it. It is a good book though, well worth reading (even if it is a kid's book). YINYANG I think Rebecca's World does ring a bell...I shall have to google it!

[ergonzo]

Is it the Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan ?Hill?

[ergonzo]

sorry i meant Susan Cooper not Susan Hill