The Children of Green Knowe Collection

Lucy M. Boston

The Children of Green Knowe Collection
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 February 2014
Pages
368
ISBN
9780571303472

The Children of Green Knowe Collection

Lucy M. Boston

These enchanting, haunting stories from Carnegie winner Lucy M. Boston have become modern classics, beautifully evoking all the magic and wonder of childhood. Now The Children of Green Knowe and River at Green Knowe are available in one edition.

Children of Green Knowe - Tolly’s great grandmother isn’t a witch, but both she and her old house, Green Knowe, are full of a very special kind of magic. There are other children in the house - children who were happy there centuries before. Running around Green Knowe’s moat, gardens and mysterious rooms, Tolly slowly discovers them, their toys and animals, and their wonderful stories…

River at Green Knowe - ‘What a lot of islands the river makes,’ said Ida. ‘We must go exploring and sail around them all.’ And so begins a wonderful, magical summer. Ida, Oscar and Ping are staying with Ida’s great-aunt at the ancient, river-encircled house of Green Knowe. They set out to chart the river in the canoe, and soon discover that it has some surprising and mysterious secrets.

Review

It was such a delight to re-read this past favourite for this review and find it still as spellbinding and full of enchantment as I remember.

Tolly, the young hero, is such a quiet, introspective boy, and his holiday with his great-grandmother at the old farm Green Knowe promises to be slow-paced and solitary. But the house – with its ancient furnishings, half-tame birds and old topiary gardens – is full of mystery, and Tolly is used to being on his own and listening to the house around him.

In this place, where the line between past and present is very thin, his great-grandmother seems unsurprised that he mysteriously meets other children who have also loved the manor. Like them, Tolly fears the overgrown Green Noah, lurking for generations in a corner of the garden. A world not to be missed for imaginative readers aged 10 and up, or as a shared family read-aloud.


Kathy Kozlowski

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