Alastor Castle In The Attic

Your students will enjoy reading a novel set during medieval times.

Alastor castle in the attic.

It has sold over a million copies and is included in elementary school curriculums all over the country. Beef with broccoli and chicken with cashews. Because alastor s spells are broken the forest is no longer dangerous and the famine ends. The knight came alive alastor s necklace had what on it.

Sir simon is the silver knight. 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. Phillips his beloved nanny down to the size of his index finger.

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. He is a bit rusty and weak. The sequel is more of a straight up adventure story but does have the same type of cross cultural charm in. William has used the magical janus medal to shrink mrs.

The novel has won the dorothy canfield fisher children s book award and the california young reader medal. The castle in the attic is both entertaining and educational. It has also been nominated for twenty three state book awards. While the story moves a bit too fast for an adult it s a wonderful book for elementary age kids.

What statement from the castle in the attic is an opinion. What color pennant flag was on alastor s castle before his defeat. He grabbed it from alastor as he was being changed to lead. One of my favorite books from my childhood.

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. He wants to get in good shape so he can fight anyone that comes into the attic. 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. He wants to reclaim his kingdom from alastor.

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. 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. They will also love reading about william s adventures as he travels back in time. A short and sweet story about a boy who is given a special castle.

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.