![]() ![]() The house is tremendously old, dating from the Norman Conquest, and has been continually inhabited by Toseland’s ancestors, the d’Aulneaux, later Oldknowe or Oldknow, family. The novel concerns the visit of a young boy, Toseland, to the magical house of Green Knowe. It was a commended runner up for the 1954 Carnegie Medal. The Children of Green Knowe is the first of the six books written by Boston about the fictional manor house of Green Knowe. ![]() Synopsis cut and pasted in directly from the Green Knowe Wikipedia page, because whomever wrote it did a lovely job of summation of the story set-up: 157 pages.Ī subtle classic of children’s literature, this novel calls one back to the elusive world of imaginative childhood, when all things are possible, and some things are downright magical. ![]()
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