Welcome to the Kidsmomo Time Machine! Where would you like to go today? Ancient Egypt? Shakespearian England? Maybe even the future? Well, you’re in luck! These books involving time travel (in no particular order) will transport you through history and into the beyond:

1. The Time Garden by Edward Eager (Karen’s pick)
2. Time Windows by Kathryn Reiss (Nancy’s pick)
3. Time Warp Trio series by Jon Scieszka
4. Molly Moon’s Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure (Molly Moon Book #3) by Georgia Byng
5. Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander
6. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
7. For All Time by Caroline B. Cooney
8. The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
9. King of Shadows by Susan Cooper
10. Stonewords: A Ghost Story by Pam Conrad
11. Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
12. The Doll in the Garden by Mary Downing Hahn
13. 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
14. Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer
15. Bed-Knob and Broomstick by Mary Norton

If you’ve read any of these, send in your book review. Or send in a review of your favorite time travel book!

UPDATE 2/2/10: We revealed the answer to our Time Travel Mystery Book Theater in the “Time After Time” Podcast, so take a listen if you want to know the answer. Or just tune in if you want to meet a messenger from the future! (Kind of…)

Finally coming down off your Halloween sugar high and need a pick-me-up? Well, you’re in luck because it’s time for our latest podcast, all about spooky and supernatural books!

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• “Mini Monsters, Evil Aliens, and Ballerinas in Sweatpants” — this week’s mystery book and ghosts of our Halloweens past
• “Ghosts and More Ghosts” — our spooky book picks* (The Graveyard Book and Something Upstairs)
• Karen’s most glorious costume moment… sadly, decades ago

And when you’re done listening, don’t forget: our next theme is wacky families! So watch our latest Mystery Book Theater video and check out these books about wacky families that will have you laughing out loud and maybe, just maybe, being a little nicer to your siblings. Ha ha, yeah, right…)

— Nancy and Karen

*P.S. – In this part of the podcast, Karen mentions that you can hear Neil Gaiman read all of The Graveyard Book if you go to his website. Here’s a quick link right to it!