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The Children of Green Knowe
The spooky original illustrations have been retained, but dramatic new cover art by Brett Helquist (illustrator of A Series of Unfortunate Events) gives the books a fresh, timeless appeal for today's readers.
Book Details
- Publisher: Clarion Books
- Publish Date: Apr 1st, 2002
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.66in - 5.18in - 0.47in - 0.39lb
- EAN: 9780152024680
- Recommended age: 08-12
- Categories: • Classics• Historical - General• Fantasy - General
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What people are saying
Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | professional indexer | Reader in the CofE | tutor for @OxfordConted | Twilight of the Godlings out now with CUP
Re-reading The Children of Green Knowe, a memory suddenly comes flooding back that, as a child, I decided to imitate Boggis by filling one pocket of my waistcoat with sugar (yes I wore waistcoats as a child, yes I know that's weird...)
"[A] gentle novel of a haunting dating from the Great Plague... I read it at age 8. Twenty-five years later the author served me tea in the garden of her home, the setting of her transporting fantasies. I'm still haunted."
Publishing Director of Raven Books. Lover of the gripping & the gothic, the contemporary & the cunning. Comprehensive school girl in literary world.
@rosieandrews22 Have you read the children of green knowe by Lucy Boston? younger than The Dark is Rising audience but properly magical. I reread it every Christmas. (Caution, if you haven’t read it it will give you entirely unrealistic expectations of what a Christmas tree should be like)
Praise for this book
"This is a book . . . to own and read aloud and come back to over and over again. It is one of the best fantasies I have ever read."--Horn Book
"An uncommon tale . . . told with a gratifying blend of the eerie, the sinister, and the familiar."--New Yorker
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What people are saying
Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | professional indexer | Reader in the CofE | tutor for @OxfordConted | Twilight of the Godlings out now with CUP
Re-reading The Children of Green Knowe, a memory suddenly comes flooding back that, as a child, I decided to imitate Boggis by filling one pocket of my waistcoat with sugar (yes I wore waistcoats as a child, yes I know that's weird...)
"[A] gentle novel of a haunting dating from the Great Plague... I read it at age 8. Twenty-five years later the author served me tea in the garden of her home, the setting of her transporting fantasies. I'm still haunted."