New Releases by Lucy Maria Boston

With cover art by Brett Helquist, this thrilling and chilling tale of Green Knowe is about a haunted house in the English countryside.

L. M. Boston''s classic Green Knowe series is back. Enjoy these timeless stories in five new beautiful editions.

L. M. Boston''s classic Green Knowe series is back. Enjoy these timeless stories in five new beautiful editions.

An English girl, a Polish refugee, and a displaced boy from East Asia explore an island-strewn river near the ancient manor house, Green Knowe.

A schoolboy''s Easter holiday at his great-grandmother''s old country home gives him the opportunity to learn about the house''s former inhabitants.

Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century. "L.M. Boston''s classic is a sophisticated mood piece disguised as a children''s ghost story. As young Toseland goes to live with his grandmother in the family''s ancestral home, the reader is plunged immediately into the world of Green Knowe. Like Toseland, who actually rows up to his new home in the midst of a flood, we have a hard time finding our bearings. Toseland discovers a funny kind of grandmother awaiting him--one who speaks elliptically of the children and animals she keeps around the house: they might be memories, they might be ghosts. It''s never quite clear where real life leaves off and magic begins. Toseland admires a deer: "A deer seems more magic than a horse." His grandmother is quick to respond: "Very beautiful fairy-tale magic, but a horse that thinks the same thoughts that you do is like strong magic wine, a love philtre for boys. With this meshing of the magical and the real, Boston evokes a childlike world of wonder. She compounds the effect by combining gorgeous images and eerily evocative writing. Toseland goes out on a snowy morning: "In front of him, the world was an unbroken dazzling cloud of crystal stars, except for the moat, which looked like a strip of night that had somehow sinned and had no stars in it." The loosely plotted story is given more resonance still through liberal use of biblical imagery and Anglo-Saxon mythology. For those willing to suspend their disbelief and read carefully, the world of Green Knowe offers a wondrous escape." Source: www.amazon.com.

Autobiography of the English author.

When Rob puts the rare fossil of a coiled snake he has discovered under the warm radiator in his room, a wonderful thing happens.

Before the visit with her mother''s friend had ended, Libby saw the dryads and water nymphs that lived near the house.

Twins sisters discover a tiny house in their orchard, but the next day it has grown, and it keeps on growing.

Tolly comes to live with his greatgrandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.

When Joseph explores a magic garden, he discovers a tiny door at the foot of a yew bush and his adventures begin. Grades 4-6.