I read Five Children on the Western Front

It was okay. The author clearly worked hard at matching Nesbit's voice (although this book is a lot less serially episodic in nature than the original series), but I'm not sure the voice and the more grown-up setting meshed very well. And a huge part of this book is the poor Psammead having to learn a moral lesson, and... I don't know, I'm not entirely sure I thought that was a good idea, plot-wise.

The idea of seeing what would happen to those children during WWI is not a bad one - I made the same realization that the kids were the right age to be caught up in it a few years ago - I'm just not sure that it was worked out here the way I'd like.

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