Alastor Castle In The Attic

It has also been nominated for twenty three state book awards.

Alastor castle in the attic.

The castle is perfect in every way with a drawbridge a moat and a fingerhigh knight to guard the gates. The castle in the attic by elizabeth winthrop missed my radar when i was a child in 1985. It s almost too real. Her children s novel the castle in the attic has been nominated for twenty three state book awards and won the dorothy canfield fisher award in vermont and the young readers award in california.

The novel has won the dorothy canfield fisher children s book award and the california young reader medal. It looked fun adventuresome inventive and certainly is. Phillips is leaving he is devastated. A beloved children s classic by elizabeth winthrop in the same vein as the indian in the cupboard and bridge to terabithia the castle in the attic tells the tale of william a boy with a gentle heart that turns out to be his special gift and how when he discovers the toy soldier in his model castle is actually sir simon of hargrave a knight par excellence he becomes drawn into a world of magic danger and fantasy where only he can help bring down alastor the evil sorcerer who is.

It has sold over a million copies and is included in elementary school curriculums all over the country. When william learns that his favorite caretaker mrs. But then she gives him her parting gift a mysterious model castle that has been in her family for years. It looked fun adventuresome inventive and certainly is.

William brings sir simon and the rest of the statues to life.