The Children of Green Knowe is one of my favourite books too. I've not read any of the other Green Knowe books because this one is so special, so real somehow, and I'm afraid of diluting its power.
By the bye, I keep thinking about that devil, Severus Snape! I've always assumed he felt guilty about Lily's death, but yesterday the thought occurred that he didn't at all but blamed James and Harry and believed himself a victim alongside her. I've been trying to write a Snape essay for hp essays (although it's a community that seems to have stopped just now) but every time I think I know what I want to say, something new and usually contradictory comes up. I've just been reading The Chymical Wedding which shares some themes with HP. (Weirdly and disconcertingly, it has some similarities to The Children of Green Knowe.) Unlike HP it pretty much spells out what its characters are thinking and experiencing. With HP so much is up to the reader to work out - if they want to - but understanding what is there to be worked out and what is not there at all is the tricky bit.
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By the bye, I keep thinking about that devil, Severus Snape! I've always assumed he felt guilty about Lily's death, but yesterday the thought occurred that he didn't at all but blamed James and Harry and believed himself a victim alongside her. I've been trying to write a Snape essay for hp essays (although it's a community that seems to have stopped just now) but every time I think I know what I want to say, something new and usually contradictory comes up. I've just been reading The Chymical Wedding which shares some themes with HP. (Weirdly and disconcertingly, it has some similarities to The Children of Green Knowe.) Unlike HP it pretty much spells out what its characters are thinking and experiencing. With HP so much is up to the reader to work out - if they want to - but understanding what is there to be worked out and what is not there at all is the tricky bit.