The River at Green Knowe
10 best books like The River at Green Knowe (Lucy M. Boston): The Land of Green Ginger, Linnets and Valerians, Return to Gone-Away, The Well-Wishers, The Wouldbegoods, Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain, The Midnight Folk, A Hundred Million Francs, Swallowdale, The Wombles
This beloved classic is a funny, clever, and original novel that opens with Aladdin, now Emperor of China, trying to decide what to name his new son, a child who won't stop talking and is already far too articulate for his own good. The Genie of the Lamp announces that Abu Ali should be the child's name and...
Author | Elizabeth Goudge |
ISBN | 0142300268 |
The four Linnet children: Nan, Robert, Timothy and Betsy are sent to live with their strict grandmother while their father travels to Egypt. Locked away in separate rooms as punishment by their ruthless grandmother, the Linnets feel at once that their new life is unbearable—and decide to make their...
Author | Elizabeth Enright |
ISBN | 0152022635 |
A wish come true. That's what Portia thinks when her parents buy Villa Caprice, a tumbledown Victorian house along the swampy edge of Gone-Away Lake. A new house is always full of surprises, but Porcia is completely unprepared for the extraordinary things that happen when her family moves into a new...
Author | Edward Eager |
ISBN | 0152949941 |
Just when the children thought the magic in the old well was all played out (that is, if it was magic!) and had sworn an oath in blood not to make any more wishes until the well gave them a sign, Gordy—in a reckless moment—told it to get going with its magic, or else! Something certainly did begin to happen...
Author | E. Nesbit |
ISBN | 0140367519 |
Edith Nesbit’s life was certainly unconventional by late Victorian and Edwardian standards, and it’s not surprising that her own childhood experiences and adult observations find themselves thinly fictionalised in her novels, particularly those written for children. Typical is her re-use...
Author | Edward Ardizzone |
ISBN | 1845074564 |
Little Tim wants to be a sailor, but his parents tell him he's too young, even though his retired boatman friend has taught him all about ships. He decides to convince them by stowing away on a steamer. When he is discovered, he is put to work scrubbing the decks, which is a lot harder than he expected.
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Author | John Masefield |
ISBN | 0006724167 |
‘Don’t you have any fear, Kay. We’re the guards, we are. We hear that the house has gone all to sixes and sevens since we left it, but that’s going to be remedied now’
Young Kay Harker lives in an old house in the country, filled with portraits of his ancestors. His only companions are...
Author | Paul Berna |
ISBN | 0370009428 |
4.5 stars. A gang of French children have a favourite game. One of them owns what must be an old rocking horse or carousel horse that has been welded onto a chassis with three wheels. The horse having lost it's head does not lessen the children's enjoyment at all, they spend their days riding their horse...
Author | Arthur Ransome |
ISBN | 0879235721 |
Update of May 2013:
Three years (give or take a couple months) is not really enough of a gap in between rereadings of a series I know as well as this one. Swallowdale in particular seems like it could benefit from lying fallow for a decade or so. But I suppose that in 2010 I just didn't dare to allow...
Author | Elisabeth Beresford |
ISBN | 0140305726 |
Ahhhhhh. What a satisfying bedtime read.
I never heard of the Wombles until I ran across them 15 yrs ago or so on Nick at Nite. The charming short films were cute without being twee, funny without being obvious, and I loved them immediately. Only recently did I find out there were books!! And the...
Author | Joan Aiken |
ISBN | 0152060642 |
Felix Brooke, the orphaned son of an English soldier and an aristocratic Spanish mother, has been raised in the strict, loveless household of his grandfather in Villaverde, Spain. When Felix gains possession of a letter that contains a clue to the whereabouts of his father’s family, he gladly runs...
Author | Lloyd Alexander |
ISBN | 0141309806 |
Living alone in her wagon on the outskirts of a small town while waiting for her father's return, Rizka, a Gypsy and a trickster, exposes the ridiculous foibles of some of the townspeople. High comedy as much as a celebration of Rizka's brains and brassiness, her flouting of conventions, and her own brand...