The River At Green Knowe

from marybeth494

The Premise: Three children come to spend the holidays at Green Knowe, an ancient house on an island in the middle of the river. Two of the children, Oskar & Ping, are displaced children and the third, Ida, is the niece of the woman who is renting the house while working on a book about giants. T...

from phoebesmum

This is completely different to the first two books. There's no sign of Tolly, or Mrs Oldknowe, or any of their ancestors, and even Green Knowe itself is barely featured. Instead we have two maiden ladies renting the house and inviting three children, two of them Displaced Orphans, to stay for th...