Children’s books reviews: Escaping the ominous Tall Man into boarding school and museum tales

A selection of books for younger readers that transports them to a different time, space, and to the mysteries of the National Museum

Above from left: Sheena Wilkinson, author of ‘First Term at Fernside’; Mary Cathleen Brown, author of ‘The Tall Man’, and author of ‘The Great Discovery’, Peter Donnelly.

First Term at Fernside by Sheena Wilkinson (O’Brien, €9.99) 

“As the train squealed into the station at Queen’s Quay, Robin pulled her case and her precious hockey stick down from the luggage rack and grinned at Babs and the others in her carriage.”