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One night when I was a teenager I heard my mother go into my younger sister's room because she was crying. Turns out the book she was reading scared her, which of course piqued my interest. It was The Children of Green Knowe, and it didn't scare me, and I loved it. I always meant to read the rest of the series but never did. Now they've been reissued with Brett Helquist covers. I must get the whole series and read them all!
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First in a wonderful series - Four and 1/2 stars - my review: https://tinyurl.com/39ez49sb
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Another reread from my childhood, and another book where I can easily pinpoint what appealed to me. The story is old-fashioned on several levels - it was published in the 50s, it contains an elderly great-grandmother and an even more elderly castle, and children from centuries past still come to play in the house and garden. These fantastical elements appear gradually, and even Tolly isn't sure how real they are. As a child, it never occurred to me that they weren't really appearing to him, entr
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It’s hard to rate this as an adult; it’s definitely the heir of Secret Garden and Narnia, books I did read as a child, but I didn’t read this one then so it doesn’t fit in alongside as neatly as it should. There’s more religion and history here than I’d expect a modern child to know (especially an American), so I don’t know that I’d recommend it these days, but I can appreciate it as lovely and with a magnificent sense of place.
First in a six-book series, this book is uniquely entertaining: magical, surprising, and a little, just a little, frightening, it capitalizes on the feeling that the oldest houses keep some of their history within their walls. In this case, it's children, and the current-day child and his unique and lovely grandmother interact with them on the grounds of a very, very old house... I loved these books immensely as a child, and find them both amusing and sweet as an adult. L.M. Boston is not just p
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I'm only sorry I'm just discovering this as an adult. Can't wait to read it to my son at Christmastime in a few years.
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