The Children of Green Knowe
core novel 1954 Green Knowe
Record
| First published | 1954 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.00 (10,070 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780152024628 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
The Children of Green Knowe, published in 1954, is the first book in Lucy M. Boston's Green Knowe series. Toseland, known as Tolly, is a lonely boy sent to spend the Christmas holidays with his elderly great-grandmother, Mrs. Oldknow, at Green Knowe, an ancient moated manor house that has belonged to their family, the d'Aulneaux line, since the Norman Conquest. Left largely to his own company in the old house, Tolly gradually becomes aware of the presence of three children from the seventeenth century, an earlier Toseland nicknamed Toby, his brother Alexander, and their sister Linnet, whose spirits still seem to linger in the rooms and gardens. Rather than frightening him, these encounters, along with his great-grandmother's stories of the house's long history, give Tolly a growing sense of belonging to Green Knowe and its past.
Where it sits
- Universe: Green Knowe
- Series: Green Knowe core; position 1 of 6 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Lucy M. Boston
Notes
- ISBN recorded is the Harcourt Young Classics edition (2002); the 1954 first edition predates ISBNs.
- From the series record (Green Knowe): Core Canon = all six novels; complete sequence, no companion material.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Green Knowe: position 1 of 6: next The Chimneys of Green Knowe (1958)
Sources
← Green Knowe dossier · All universes
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