Alastor Castle In The Attic

The novel has won the dorothy canfield fisher children s book award and the california young reader medal.

Alastor castle in the attic.

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

The castle is perfect in every way with a drawbridge a moat and a fingerhigh knight to guard the gates. It has also been nominated for twenty three state book awards. 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. It s almost too real.

When william learns that his favorite caretaker mrs. It has sold over a million copies and is included in elementary school curriculums all over the country. The castle in the attic by elizabeth winthrop missed my radar when i was a child in 1985. It looked fun adventuresome inventive and certainly is.

But then she gives him her parting gift a mysterious model castle that has been in her family for years.