Green Knowe Series

Todays Blog is a little different than I have done so far. I will inform you of a series of Childrens Books. A series of British books written by a mother, herself. The series is called Green Knowe.

There are 6 books and 1 short story in all.
-1st book, "The Children of Green Knowe."
-2nd book, "Treasure of Green Knowe."
-3rd book, "The River at Green Knowe."
-4th book, "A Stranger at Green Knowe."
-5th book, "An Enemy at Green Knowe."
-6th book, "The Stone of Green Knowe."
The short story is called, "Demon at Green Knowe."

Lucy M. Boston, or better known as L.M. Boston, wrote the Green Knowe series from 1954 to 1976. Her son, Peter Boston illstrated the books for his mother, making it a project just for them.

Some of the stories features are Toseland, Tolly for short and his great-grandmother, Mrs. Oldknow. Green knowe also features a very old house, based on the family's home at the time. (The Manor in Hemingford, Cambridge.) Green Knowe is haunted by the spirits of children who lived there in the "ages past." Other supernatural charaters of the books features a large tree, Green Noah, which stands on the grounds of Green Knowe. Green Noah is a demonic tree-spirit and manifests the trees grounds and an animated statue of St. Christopher.

The first 5 books were published by Faber & Faber in the years between 1954 to 1964.

L.M. Boston wrote the short story in 1964, the only short story of the series.

Harcourt published both the series and the short story in the United States. The first book in 1955. The others were within the year of the "British publication."

The last book appeared after more than a decade. It was then published by The Bodle Head & Atheneum Books in 1976.

WorldCat reports that the 6 Green Knowe novels "are Boston's works most widely held by participating libraries, by a wild margin."

Boston went on to win the annual "Carnegie Medal" for book 4. She was the runner up for this medal for books 1 and 2.