A really charming read. What's not to like about an orphaned boy having nightly adventures with various small animals that can talk to him as he flies about through the sky trying to find a long lost treasure and is being prevented from succeeding at every turn by an evil governess?

British children from the 1920s must have been far more literate than American children from the 1960s (my generation), because though reading this as an adult in my retirement years, I found the sophistication of language and plot in The Midnight Folk far exceeds what I would have found leisurely reading during my childhood years.