I'm one of those who is Enchanted(TM) by The Little White Horse. What can I say? Sometimes you want a book that is entirely composed of redemptive moments, without making you experience a single one of the bad times that need to be redeemed. (I guess that's why I like "The Tempest.")

Linnets and Valerians is cut from the same cloth. I remember it as being overly sweet to barfing point, and threw it across the room when I was the right age for it. Returning to it as an adult a few months ago, I can see I wasn't being fair to it back then. The narrator has a nice acid voice and there are moments of actual peril, and the characters aren't even overly powered; the child protagonists get a long way just by being nice to people at the right time and place.