The Castle in the Attic (Castle) (Castle in the Attic)

by Elizabeth Winthrop

Trina Schart Hyman (Illustrator)

A gift of a toy castle, complete with silver knight, introduces William to an adventure involving magic and a personal quest.

• ISBN10: 0606069534
• ISBN13: 9780606069533
• Publish Date: 1 August 1986 (first published 1 September 1985)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 1 September 2015
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Demco Media Inc
• Edition: Turtleback School & Library ed.
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 179
• Language: English

Reviews

[angelarenea9]

I finally found this book and finished it! My 3rd grade teacher started reading this aloud for the last week of school and we got out of school for the summer before we finished! It has literally been driving me crazy since then. It was a pretty good book, I think I hyped it up a little in my head over the years, but I enjoyed it. Would recommend it to any grade school kids.

[wyvernfriend]

A lovely tale about a boy who inherits a Castle from his nanny and then finds that the lead knight is real. He's only 9 and his nanny is about to leave him when he shrinks her to the size of the castle and then realises that really, he shouldn't have done that, in order to restore the knight and nanny he too has to shrink and approach the world the knight came from and defeat evil.

I found it a charming story, with occasional stutters where it didn't bridge between scenes as well as it could have, but a fun story.