Greenwild: The World Behind the Door
core novel 2023 Greenwild
Record
| First published | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.14 (4,198 ratings, collected 2026-10-18) |
| Page count | 364 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780374391379 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Daisy Thistledown has spent her childhood travelling the world with her mother, a famous investigative journalist, until her mother takes a dangerous assignment and leaves her at a boarding school. When word comes that her mother has disappeared, Daisy escapes from the school with a mystery to solve, and the trail leads her, chased across London, through a hidden doorway into another world: the Greenwild, a rich and verdant land bursting with a deep magic that rises from the earth itself. There she finds herself confronting a dangerous presence that threatens green magic on both sides of the door, and must band together with a botanical prodigy, a boy who can talk to animals and a cat with an attitude to channel the power that can save the Greenwild, and her own world too. The first book of the trilogy, Pari Thomson's debut.
Where it sits
- Universe: Greenwild
- Series: Greenwild core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Pari Thomson
Awards (verified)
- Waterstones Children's Book Prize (Overall), 2024: won; Overall winner, per the publisher's description of the trilogy.
Notes
- From the series record (Greenwild): Pari Thomson's botanical portal fantasy for middle-grade readers: Daisy Thistledown's search for her missing mother through the hidden pockets of the Greenwild, a world of green magic tended by the Botanists.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Greenwild: position 1 of 3: next Greenwild: The City Beyond the Sea (2024)
- Internal chronology, within Greenwild: position 1 of 4: next The Frozen King (2026)
Sources
- Toppsta (series listing)
- Los Gatos Library catalogue (first edition record)
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux (publisher description, via library catalogue)
- Bloomsbury (publisher description, via the book's record)
- Macmillan Children's Books (publisher description, via Toppsta)
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