Treasure of Green Knowe

The Children of Green Knowe is our favourite book of all time. I remember as a child feeling dissapointed by this one, and rereading for a second time as an adult I still struggled with parts. The Children of Green Knowe worked so well, the present day plot was just as interesting as the encounters......more

Tolly spends his summer holiday at Green Knowe with his great-grandmother, befriends more of the house's ghosts and learns their stories. I just love this series. So perfectly magic-in-the-everyday-ical. And I love that Charlie is enjoying it, too.......more

The second of Tolly's adventures at his great-grandmother's house of Green Knowe. Children from the past are there again but not really in the form of ghosts. Tolly finds out about Susan and Jacob and Susan's family from his great-grandmother's stories and various artefacts he finds. And a fascinati......more

Tolly returns to Green Knowe for the Easter holidays, but his beloved companions of the 16th century -- Alexander, Toby and Linnet -- have gone. The painting of these children, now ghosts or "others", is on display as part of an exhibition, and they can't visit the house when it's not there. On top......more

It was not until I began to read Treasure at Green Knowe, the second volume in L.M. Boston’s charming Green Knowe series, that I realized just how much I had missed Tolly; his great-grandmother, Mrs. Oldknow; and the spectral Toby, Linnet and Alexander, who died of bubonic plague 300 years before To......more