Alastor Castle In The Attic

One of my favorite books from my childhood.

Alastor castle in the attic.

It has also been nominated for twenty three state book awards. He is a bit rusty and weak. The castle in the attic is both entertaining and educational. A short and sweet story about a boy who is given a special castle.

The sequel is more of a straight up adventure story but does have the same type of cross cultural charm in. Phillips a caring nanny. Children s literature portal the castle in the attic is a children s fantasy novel by elizabeth winthrop and illustrator trina schart hyman first published in 1985. Sir simon s childhood nurse who is in the castle with alastor uses one of the tokens to turn alastor to metal and send him to the toy castle in william s attic.

Your students will enjoy reading a novel set during medieval times. He wants to reclaim his kingdom from alastor. What color pennant flag was on alastor s castle before his defeat. How did sir simon get the first janus token.

He grabbed it from alastor as he was being changed to lead. Sir simon is the silver knight. Phillips his beloved nanny down to the size of his index finger. It has sold over a million copies and is included in elementary school curriculums all over the country.

The knight came alive alastor s necklace had what on it. William brings sir simon and the rest of the statues to life. What two chinese meals did william and his dad make or plan to make. A sequel the battle for the castle was written almost ten years later concerning william returning to simon s kingdom this time with his friend jason in tow where they encounter new characters and have to face off with a darker more insidious and disturbing evil than the wizard.

The novel has won the dorothy canfield fisher children s book award and the california young reader medal. Because alastor s spells are broken the forest is no longer dangerous and the famine ends. William has used the magical janus medal to shrink mrs. They will also love reading about william s adventures as he travels back in time.

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. William has just received the best present of his life an old real looking stone and wooden model of a castle with a drawbridge a moat and a fingerhigh knight to guard the gates. A castle when william went to the attic to meet the silver knight to be alone with him for the first time what did the knight do. It s the mysterious castle his housekeeper has told him about and even though william is sad she s leaving now the castle is his.

He wants to get in good shape so he can fight anyone that comes into the attic.