A STRANGER AT GREEN KNOWE Author:L.M. Boston Illustrated by Peter Boston. First published in 1961 - this is the "second impression" and is "a special Children's Book Club Edition". — The fourth book in the Green Knowe series. — From the book jacket: "The wild and timeless garden at Green Knowe has a visitor - a visitor from the wilder and more ancient jungles of Africa. Hanno has gone to gro... more »und in the bamboo thicket that is Mrs. Oldknow's bird sanctuary; and his host, admirer and protector is Ping, the displaced boy with almond eyes and the proper name that no one can say in English. It is all a secret...which Ping cannot even share with Mrs. Oldknow; and when an end comes to the adventure it is triumphant as well as inevitable."« less