The Children of Green Knowe Collection

Lucy M. Boston

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Faber & Faber
01 February 2014

Children's & Educational; Classic fiction (Children's&YA)

Series: Faber Children's Classics

In the first story in this collection, 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 . . .

Then, in River at Green Knowe, Ida, Oscar and Ping are staying with Ida's great-aunt at the ancient, river-encircled house of 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 as they set out to chart the river in the canoe, and soon discover that it has some surprising and mysterious secrets.

By: Lucy M. Boston
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 265g
ISBN: 9780571303472
ISBN 10: 0571303471
Series: Faber Children's Classics
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 01 February 2014
Recommended Age: from 9 to 11
Audience: Children/juvenile , Children / Juvenile
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lucy Boston was born in 1892 in Southport, Lancashire, one of six children. She went to a Quaker school in Surrey, and was married in 1917. She later moved to a beautiful manor house near Cambridge which provided the setting for her Green Knowe stories. She started writing at the age of sixty and won the Carnegie Medal for A Stranger of Green Knowe in 1961. Her books are illustrated by her son, Peter. Lucy Boston died in 1990.