The River At Green Knowe

A prosaic reader might say this is a story about three children who spend an idyllic summer at a mansion in Cambridgeshire mostly messing about on the river, and in this they wouldn't be wrong. But this is no ordinary mansion, these are no ordinary children, and this is no ordinary river: this is Gr......more

I absolutely adored the first two books in L.M. Boston’s Green Knowe series. In the first, The Children of Green Knowe, we meet Toseland, nicknamed Tolly, a boy sent to live with his great-grandmother, Mrs. Oldknow, and three 17th century children who haunt Green Knowe from their painting. In the ne......more

There are children’s books for children defined by age, and children’s books for everyone’s Inner Child. Boston takes us on a journey through the countryside and the country of unlimited imagination and innocence. Would a modern child be able to travel with her? Two eccentric old women, Dr Maud Biggi......more

No one writes about nature and the countryside as beautifully as do the British. Theirs is a long tradition of noticing, treasuring, and articulating beauty. I grew up with this series and as an adult am so impressed with the authors of this time, like Boston, who never thought to talk down to child......more

ENGLISH: Instead of Tolly and his great-grandmother, in this third book of the series the protagonists change. They are three children from 9 to 11 (two of them foreign refugees, a Pole and a Chinese), who dedicate themselves to explore the river near Green Knowe. Ping, the Chinese boy, will become......more