Winner of The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award and The California Young Readers Medal.
William has just received the best present of his life. It’s an old stone and wooden model of a castle, with a drawbridge, a moat, and a finger-high knight to guard the gates. 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!
William can’t wait to play with the castle – he’s certain there’s something magical about it. And sure enough, when he picks up the tiny silver knight, the leaden figure comes alive in his hand!
Sir Simon tells William a mighty story of wild sorcery, wizards, and magic. And suddenly, William is off on a fantastic quest to another land and another time – where a fiery dragon and an evil wizard are waiting to do battle…
- An ILA-CBC Children’s Classic
- Winner of the California Young Reader Medal
- The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award
- Listed for 23 state book awards
“Winthrop creates a believable imaginary world that nevertheless relates to the real world.” – Madeleine L’Engle, award winning author of A Wrinkle in Time.
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The book is currently in its 71st Edition.
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- The Castle in the Attic Single Copy
- The Castle in the Attic 4-Pack
- Read Aloud Teacher Set: C.I.A. Unit of Study: Epic Fantasy – The Castle in the Attic, 4.2 is the second unit in a series of five designed for fourth grade. Within this unit, you are provided with scripted lessons for instructional read-aloud that incorporate reading, writing, language, listening, and speaking standards.
ISBN: 0823405796
Audio ISBN: 0807277878
Why are there no websites dedicated to this book? You’d think with such a successful book people would make websites with fanfiction to bring more awareness of this book.
We were just browsing your page and we noticed Island Justice. Would you recommend it? Also we are writing a 5 paragraph paper for our teacher. Do you have any tips for us? We are all so thrilled to be talking to you! Talk to you later!
Sincerely,
Your biggest fans
Thank you for responding. We’re so happy you replied we shared it with the entire class! Also thank you for recommending those books we will be searching for them everywhere!We almost dropped the iPad we were so exited.Thank you thank you thank you so very much.
Would you please write another book? We LOVE them! There is nothing like your books! Do you think you could write a biography series?
Love,
Your biggest fans!
How lovely to have such avid fans… Have you read COUNTING ON GRACE? and THE RED HOT RATTOONS? I’m writing as fast as I can, I promise:)
Elizabeth
We are a group of a kids from Geneseo ,IL. We are in fourth grade.We read your book Castle in the Attic for school. We thought it was the best book we’ve ever read! It was so good we thought we were going to faint.Sorry for the other comment we were getting grabby with the iPad. We craved that book.We liked the adventure in the dark forest.
I was in a book cub with 3 other girls and we read this book and it was amazing all the details, FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
from one of the girls in New Jersey, Princeton Junction
There’s a wonderful new teacher’s guide out for THE CASTLE IN THE ATTIC. Check it out at this link:
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