Green Knowe
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Green Knowe is a series of six books written by Lucy M. Boston. They feature a very old house (based on the real life place where she lived, The Manor in Hemingford Grey, Cambridgeshire). The books mostly feature a boy named Toseland (Tolly for short) and his great-grandmother, Mrs Oldknowe. The house is inhabited (though not haunted) by the spirits of children who lived there in ages past. They are not ghosts; more than one of those that Tolly knows as children later grow into adults. Other supernatural entities which appear in the series include the demonic tree-spirit, Green Noah - a large tree who grows on the grounds of the manor house - and an animated statue of St. Christopher.
The books are:
- The Children of Green Knowe
- The Treasure of Green Knowe (aka The Chimneys of Green Knowe)
- The River at Green Knowe
- A Stranger at Green Knowe
- An Enemy at Green Knowe
- The Stones of Green Knowe
The Children of Green Knowe was adpated into a BBC drama serial comprising 4 episodes in 1986. It was broadcast between on BBC 1 between Wednesday 26th November and concluded on the 17th December 1986. The dramatisation was adapted from Boston's novel by John Stadelman. A Stranger At Green Knowe (1961), was awarded the Carnegie Medal
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