Alastor Castle In The Attic

The castle in the attic by elizabeth winthrop missed my radar when i was a child in 1985.

Alastor castle in the attic.

It has sold over a million copies and is included in elementary school curriculums all over the country. It has also been nominated for twenty three state book awards. When william learns that his favorite caretaker mrs. Because alastor s spells are broken the forest is no longer dangerous and the famine ends.

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 castle is perfect in every way with a drawbridge a moat and a fingerhigh knight to guard the gates. 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.

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. But then she gives him her parting gift a mysterious model castle that has been in her family for years. Phillips is leaving he is devastated. The novel has won the dorothy canfield fisher children s book award and the california young reader medal.

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