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Title	:	The Children of Green Knowe (Green Knowe #1)
Author	:	Lucy M. Boston
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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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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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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)

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Review originally posted HEREThis is seriously one of the worst books I've ever read. I am surprised it made the list of top 100. It had a lot of potential-the plot and characters both seemed interesting, but the book is BORING. Through 90 percent of the book, we read how Tolly, the little boy, explores the house and grounds (with mundane activity), listens to birds, and plays flutes. The actions are very mundane-look at the book cover; that's pretty much the whole book. Finally, toward the end,

I admit it, the few 1-star and 5-star ratings I hand out are very subjective. If this were a concert, The Children of Green Knowe would be the warm up band for The Secret Garden. This story is old fashioned and charming. It's about a little boy whose parents apparently have something better to do than raise their child (read the author's bio if you want to know who gave her this idea) and put him on a train to go live with his great grandmother. Getting rid of the parents is almost obligatory in

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

L.M. Boston, who lived for many years in a twelfth-century manor house that is reputed to be the oldest continually inhabited residence in Britain, has a stronger sense of place than any author I have ever encountered, and Green Knowe itself - the setting (clearly inspired by her own home) for her six interrelated children's novels, beginning with this one, first published in 1954, and concluding with her 1976 The Stones of Green Knowe - comes alive in her stories, almost as a character in its

A delightful fantasy for not just children!

It's the Christmas holidays and a young pre-teen called Tolly has gone from his boarding school to spend a few weeks at his great-grandmother's mansion called, mysteriously, Green Noah. Appropriately the countryside is in flood from winter rains, leaving the house like the Ark perched on Mount Ararat. But from the first Tolly will find this the most magical of visits, as does a first-time reader such as myself.Why does this children's novel, the first in a series, evoke such admiration and

The young boy Tolly meets his great grandmother for the first time and is greeted by her: "So you've come back!" I wondered whose face it would be of all the faces I knew." This is a rich story of recognizing your place in the fabric of time and the line of family. I can't think of a better way for the two main characters to be introduced than by learning that the great grandmother "recognizes" her descendent even never having seen him before. That says miles worth to me. This story for young