Children’s Classic Read April

April 1, 2019

The Children of Green Knowe was written as the first in a series of six children’s books set in and around fictional Green Knowe, an ancient manor house. The stories are both a descriptive and inventive children’s adventure and a love song to the author’s real-life home – The Manor at Hemingford Grey – built in the 1130s and purported to be the longest continually inhabited house in Britain. Green Knowe is a fictionalised Hemingford Manor, the house and gardens with its topiary animals all lovingly described (the latter in real life planted as a labour of love by the author, and still maintained and open to the public).

When researching for children’s classics to read I came across this book. I am anxious to start it and see if it is a worthwhile series to add to reading with kids for me. I can hardly believe it is APRIL!!

Children's Classic Read 2019