The children have many adventures along the nearby river. Biggin invites her niece, Ida, and two refugee children, Oskar and Ping, to stay at the castle for the summer. In The River of Green Knowe, the estate is being rented for the summer by two old ladies, Dr. In The Chimneys of Green Knowe, published in the United States under the title The Treasure of Green Knowe, Tolly hears the story of an ancestor from the turn of the nineteenth century, uncovering secrets to save Green Knowe. Green Knowe is not a castle, but a (real) house of comparatively modest size.In The Children of Green Knowe, Tolly first arrives at the castle, called Green Noah here, and gradually learns that all is not as it seems as he learns to fit in. These books tell the story of the adventures of a British boy, Tolly, and some other children, who visit the eponymous estate, a Norman manor house where the line between the past and the present, between the living and the dead, and between reality and fantasy, is blurred. The Green Knowe Chronicles are a series of six books by author Lucy M.
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