Books like The Four-Story Mistake

Following on from the first book, the Melendy family move from the city to the countryside to live in a house called The Four-Story Mistake. Some of the family were sad to leave New York but soon they all discover the space and the freedom and a whole new load of adventures. We loved following the children explore their new surroundings, it was lovely to make the discoveries as they did as we hadn't read any reviews with spoilers so everything they found was new to us too. We really enjoy Elizabeth Enright's descriptions of nature and how she describes moments, feelings or things not easily put into words 'High in the pale-green sky the evening star was hanging, solitary and pure. Mona called again, and her voice had the faraway, remembered sound of voices heard at dusk.' also... 'It was still raw and cold, but every now and then there would be a day, or an hour, or a moment, when the sun came out, and there was something different in the air: a sort of glimpsed fragrance like when the kitchen door is opened for a second when your birthday cake is being baked. It was a smell of promise. 'We both dream of being able to ice skate more than once a year when we visit a temporary ice rink so when (view spoiler)[ the children receive a box of ice skates for Christmas and go skating on the frozen brook (hide spoiler)]