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A review by cimorene1558
The Children of Green Knowe by L.M. Boston
adventurous
inspiring
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
5.0
To say this is a thrilling ghost story is to misrepresent it entirely. It does have a very scary moment, at least very scary if you're a kid, but the 'ghosts' are more shadows of happy children, and this is a book I go to every year for comfort, not thrills.
I wondered why Christmas didn’t feel right this year, and realized that part of it was not having read this book. So I’ve now taken care of that. I don’t think my mother actually read this to us at all, or at least not more than once (I mostly remember reading it myself), but for some reason it reminds me so much of being a child being read aloud to. And I did once have a scary night-time encounter with seeing a tree “where no tree should be” in a thunder storm.
I wondered why Christmas didn’t feel right this year, and realized that part of it was not having read this book. So I’ve now taken care of that. I don’t think my mother actually read this to us at all, or at least not more than once (I mostly remember reading it myself), but for some reason it reminds me so much of being a child being read aloud to. And I did once have a scary night-time encounter with seeing a tree “where no tree should be” in a thunder storm.