Books with title The Long Green

This charming and highly original book follows a child's path on a walk to and through a park. Photographs accent the walk's highlights — such as blossoms on a tree, flowers growing through a fence, a grassy hillside for rolling down, clouds in the sky, a friendly dog, rain splashing in puddles, and much more — linking them with the simple first-person narrative text. Little eyes are drawn from page to page by a child's doodle, a green line that might just be the end of a stick being dragged along the ground throughout the walk. This simple idea, beautifully presented through stunning photography and graphic design, not only provides much food for discussion but also stimulates children to look at the everyday wonders around them and use their imaginations.

When her parents move from London to a country town on the edge of a massive wood, Charlotte is sad to be leaving her city friends behind. Yet she's entranced by the spectral image of a green man who seems to metamorphose before her very eyes. . . Slowly but surely, Charlotte finds herself being inexorably drawn into a magical world of dark and light, good and evil; a world where something mysterious, something wonderful and something terrible is happening in the woods. Together with her shadowy neighbour - a boy who has spent his life exploring the woods - and another who was inexplicably lost there as a child for a week, the three unearth a terrible secret that threatens to destroy not only the woods but also potentially our whole world; and in exposing the mystery they discover their destinies.

Patrick Breen collects game cards, hates school, and lives to torment girls. He is, after all, a typical twelve-year-old boy. Or at least that is what he thinks until, after his latest prank, he is sent to a troublemaker's summer camp on the very spot where a 150 years earlier the Donner Party met its doom. Now, Patrick's presence has awakened the ancient evil of the Green Light, and his only hope for survival is to discover the Light's secret before - like his ancestors in the Donner Party - he is eaten alive by it.

Patrick Breen collects game cards, hates school, and lives to torment girls. He is, after all, a typical twelve-year-old boy. Or at least that is what he thinks until, after his latest prank, he is sent to a troublemaker's summer camp on the very spot where a 150 years earlier the Donner Party met its doom. Now, Patrick's presence has awakened the ancient evil of the Green Light, and his only hope for survival is to discover the Light's secret before - like his ancestors in the Donner Party - he is eaten alive by it.