300px|thumb|The Manor, Hemingford Grey, the 12th-century house on which Green Knowe was based
Green Knowe is a series of six children's novels written by Lucy M. Boston, illustrated by her son Peter Boston, In the novels she brings to life the people she imagines might have lived there.<!-- 2012-10-03 copied from our biography -->
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.
WorldCat reports that the six Green Knowe novels are Boston's works most widely held by participating libraries, by a wide margin.
Synopsis
The Children of Green Knowe (1954)
The Children of Green Knowe, the first of Boston's six books about the fictional manor house Green Knowe, was a commended runner-up for the 1954 Carnegie Medal.
The Chimneys of Green Knowe (1958)
The Chimneys of Green Knowe was a commended runner up for the 1958 Carnegie Medal.
In a study of "series fiction" at the turn of the century, Victor Watson opined that "A Stranger at Green Knowe is a masterpiece ... and in my opinion the greatest animal story in English children's literature". Generally, he praised Boston for "her ability 'to find exactly the right words, to groom her prose to glossy perfection'".
- Brian Sibley dramatised an eponymous radio play adaptation of The Children of Green Knowe, directed by Marilyn Imrie, which aired on BBC Radio 4 on 18 December 1999.
- Julian Fellowes wrote and directed a film adaptation of The Chimneys of Green Knowe, titled From Time to Time (2009).
- Listen & Live Audio, Inc. has published the unabridged audiobook recordings for each of the six novels, narrated by voiceover artist Simon Vance.
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