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| Original Title: | A Stranger at Green Knowe |
| ISBN: | 0152025898 (ISBN13: 9780152025892) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Green Knowe #4 |
| Literary Awards: | Carnegie Medal (1961) |
Lucy M. Boston
Paperback | Pages: 200 pages Rating: 3.96 | 1008 Users | 73 Reviews
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| Title | : | A Stranger at Green Knowe (Green Knowe #4) |
| Author | : | Lucy M. Boston |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 200 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 2002 by HMH Books for Young Readers (first published 1961) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Childrens. Fiction. Classics. Animals |
Explanation To Books A Stranger at Green Knowe (Green Knowe #4)
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. Now the children of Green Knowe--both alive and ghostly--are back in appealing new editions.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.
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Ratings: 3.96 From 1008 Users | 73 ReviewsCriticism Containing Books A Stranger at Green Knowe (Green Knowe #4)
Beautiful. Thoroughly engaging, very thought provoking and for a 'childrens book' written in it's time it is light years ahead in it's treatment of 'other' in both human and animal form. The prose is engaging and at times seems to dance on the page. Thoroughly recommend.Ping returns to Green Knowe in what was to be the fourth installment. I am fascinated in Boston's attraction to this character since, at this point, he is 'as' present at Tolly. I wonder whether this is Boston's 'Children of Green Knowe' for Ping. The first part of the story takes us far away from Green Knowe into the 'jungles of Africa' in which we follow a young gorilla as he is horrifically torn from his home and family and shipped to the UK. Skip forward in time and we find Ping's visit to a
Boston is kind of amazing; I didn't read the Green Knowe books until I was in my late teens, and I always forget how good they are because they're not part of my childhood. Her prose is astonishing and subtle, and her stories are sharply insightful. This one, in particular - it falls into a bunch of racist traps, but for something written in 1961 it's so aware of Ping as an individual, and of the issues of exile and entrapment that it deals with. It doesn't pull its punches; for all the strong
Originally published in 1961, I first read this book in the series as a fifth-grade student in White Rock, BC, Canada. It reintroduces a main character, a displaced refugee boy named Ping from the third book in the series. This book has all of the ingredients of a well-written childrens novel, including a satisfying but unexpected ending. The attitudes and prejudices of the characters reflect the time period wherein the story takes place (WWII), and there is no mollycoddling of the reader. The
I love this book. It well deserved that Carnegie medal and is relevant today when we have all those millions of refugees desperate for a home. The novel makes one think about displaced people, what they have lost and what they need. Although Lucy Boston is talking about the 1950s and not the 21st century.Ping is a displaced boy. Returning to his jungle home in Burma from a morning's adventuring he finds it burnt, his family killed or vanished and nothing of their little community left except one
One of the more moving books in the Green Knowe canon . It suffers because it has none of the history of the house and no ghosts in it , but it gives a new chapter which will become the history of the house . Its beautifully written and although I missed the otherworldliness of the first two books it is a return to form after River
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