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Green Knowe is a series of six children's novels written by Lucy M. Boston, illustrated by her son Peter Boston,〔 and published from 1954 to 1976.〔〔 It features a very old house, Green Knowe, based on Boston's home at the time, The Manor in Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website= Green Knowe )〕 In the novels she brings to life the people she imagines might have lived there.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=Youtube )〕 For the fourth book in the series, ''A Stranger at Green Knowe'' (1961), Boston won the annual Carnegie Medal, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.〔 She was a commended runner up for both the first and second books.〔〔 Some of the stories feature Toseland, a boy called Tolly for short, and his great-grandmother Mrs. Oldknow. Green Knowe is inhabited by the spirits of people who lived there in ages past, and more than one of the spirits Tolly knows as the children later grow into adults. Other supernatural entities in the series include the children's dog, Orlando; demonic tree-spirit, Green Noah (manifesting as a large tree on the grounds of the manor house); and an animated statue of St. Christopher. Faber and Faber published the first five books, 1954 to 1964. In the U.S., Harcourt published them, the first in 1955 and the others within the calendar year of British publication. The last book appeared after more than a decade, published by The Bodley Head and Atheneum Books in 1976.〔〔 Lucy M. Boston also published one Green Knowe short story, "Demon at Green Knowe" (1964), which was compiled in ''Spook, Spooks, Spooks'' (1966). WorldCat reports that the six Green Knowe novels are Boston's works most widely held by participating libraries, by a wide margin.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79-018838 )〕 ==Synopsis== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Green Knowe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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