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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The least fantastic but one of the most beautiful Green Knowe books. Ping (from "The River at Green Knowe") is invited back to visit by Mrs Oldknowe. He befriends a fellow refugee - the escaped gorilla, Hanno but things cannot end well. Moving. This is touching story of a boy and a gorilla. Hanno ,whose parents had already been killed met Ping,a boy. One day Hanno got over a cage of the zoo and ran away into the forest.And Ping tried to help him.But ending was not what I imagined.Maybe your imagining of the ending will be incorrect. I think if Hanno were an alian,this story would be one like ET,a famous movie. Hanno is a gorilla.His parents were killed by hunters,and he was taken a zoo.Then Pig who was mein character met him. After Hanno had escaped from the zoo,Pig and Hanno met again.they became friends.And Pig want to save Hanno which is in danger. This story is unbelievable in our ordinary life.But I enjoyed reading how Pig try to save Hanno. A Stranger at Green Knowe is strikingly different from the first books of the series, and I found it to be my absolute favorite, although children probably won’t agree with me. This book begins in the jungles of Africa, when a baby gorilla is taken from his family. Ten years later, Ping meets the gorilla, named Hanno, in the London Zoo; Ping feels a bond, for just as Ping had been “displaced” from his family and home, Hanno has been displaced from his home and feels lonely in his cement, impersonal zoo world. As Ping travels to Green Knowe to spend the summer with Mrs. Oldknow, he discovers that Hanno has escaped from the zoo. In the coming days, Ping secretly helps the wild gorilla enjoy his sought-after freedom. I loved this book because I felt that Ping was superbly developed and real as neither he nor any of the other characters had been in any other book. A Stranger at Green Knowe won the 1961 Carnegie Medal, I believe it probably was well deserved. However, children that loved the first three books may be disappointed with the practical personality study and find themselves wishing for more fantastic elements, as the other three books had. In some respects, it’s a different type of book and feels out of place as a “Green Knowe” story; I still loved it. Thoughts on the entire series on my blog no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0152025898, Paperback)L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. Now the children of Green Knowe--both alive and ghostly--are back in appealing new editions. The spooky original illustrations have been retained, but dramatic new cover art by Brett Helquist (illustrator of A Series of Unfortunate Events) gives the books a fresh, timeless appeal for today's readers. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:54 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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the gorila lose the zoo.
He meet a little boy in the forest.
Then story is happen...
I feel sad because gorila's reception.
I think that human help animal. (