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A Stranger at Green Knowe by L. M. Boston
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A Stranger at Green Knowe

by L. M. Boston

Series: Green Knowe (4)

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the story is gorila and little boy's story.
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. ( )
  bakabon | Nov 9, 2009 |
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. ( )
  Figgles | Oct 30, 2009 |
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. ( )
  tobacchi | Jul 13, 2009 |
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. ( )
  riiiko | Jun 9, 2009 |
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
  rebeccareid | Jun 8, 2009 |
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Imagine a tropical forest so vast that you could roam in it all your life without ever finding out there was anything else.
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Had Hanno recognized him? He did not know and it did not matter. Everything was wonderful to him now. The heron was flapping home across the islands to the heronry; the swans climbed up on to the riverbank and there raised their pointed wings high like Seraphim before folding themselves into white curves for sleep. The river was a lake of glassy fire because the sunset was still in the sky, but over the roof of Green Knowe, pale green daylighrt still hung with the evening star there again, and the rapt flight of bats. So many free things! And the hose itself a guardian of happiness and strange thoughts, a keeper of secrets, into which he was taking one too big for him.
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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.

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