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Original Title:	The Children of Green Knowe
ISBN:	0152024689 (ISBN13: 9780152024680)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Green Knowe #1
Characters:	Toseland 'Tolly', Linnet Oldknow, Alexander Oldknow, Toseland 'Toby' Oldknow, Linnet 'Granny' Oldknow
Setting:	Green Knowe, Hemingford Grey, Cambridgeshire, England(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Rediscovery (2003), Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1969)

The Children of Green Knowe (Green Knowe #1) Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

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L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century.

There are three children: Toby, who rides the majestic horse Feste; his mischievous little sister, Linnet; and their brother, Alexander, who plays the flute. The children warmly welcome Tolly to Green Knowe... even though they've been dead for centuries.

But that's how everything is at Green Knowe. The ancient manor hides as many stories as it does dusty old rooms.

And the master of the house is great-grandmother Oldknow, whose storytelling mixes present and past with the oldest magic in the world.

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Title	:	The Children of Green Knowe (Green Knowe #1)
Author	:	Lucy M. Boston
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2002 by HMH Books for Young Readers (first published 1954)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Childrens. Fiction. Classics. Middle Grade. Paranormal. Ghosts. Young Adult

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This book really struck a chord with me. The relationship of Tolly and his grandmother is a very fine achievement by Boston. I loved the way they communicated and that they ate in the kitchen in front of the fire and shared their stories and adventures; it felt real and true. I think their relationship is beautifully articulated. It made me long for such a bond - where the sharing of thoughts, memories, ideas and emotions is expected and welcomed. Theirs was a mutually nurturing connection.

What a warm and wonderful book this is!! I wish I had read it when I was a child but am so glad I have gotten to read it now as an adult. This book is utterly charming. Tolly is a young boy whose mom is dead and his father and stepmother live in Burma. He has been at boarding school where they have been very kind to him but he really longs to belong somewhere with his own family. Then suddenly he does! His great-grandmother OldKnow sends for him to come to live with her at the family home Green

A lovely 'cosy' read: recreating the wonderful nostalgia of childhood.

4.5 starsA terribly dated and terribly charming story of a small boy's stay with his grandma in a haunted house and his adventures there. I remember reading this as a child and this time I listened on audio. It's quite warm here at the moment and the narrator had a very plummy British accent with received pronounciation which was actually quite embarrassing when I had to slow the car near pedestrians, and they could hear it through my open window!Generations of the same family and gamekeepers



In the beginning of Lucy M. Boston's wonderful children's book, The Children of Green Knowe (1954), seven-year-old Toseland (pet name Tolly) travels by train through the flooded British countryside to spend his Christmas holidays with his great-grandmother Mrs. Oldknow in her old castle-like house Green Noah (true name Green Knowe). Tolly is a lonely and imaginative boy, Mrs. Oldknow a solitary and imaginative old lady, and they hit it off immediately, encouraging each other's fancies and

This is that rarest of all things, a perfect book. It is a beautifully told story about a little boy who's sent to live with his grandmother in a very rural England. He moves into a vast old house, complete with whimsical topiary, an empty stable, a river, and - ghosts. It's obvious that that's what Tolly's strange new playmates are, at least to us, but they seem as alive as anyone else in the story, which moves seamlessly from present to past to present again, using the medium of the