He grabbed it from alastor as he was being changed to lead.
Castle in the attic alastor.
He wants to get in good shape so he can fight anyone that comes into the attic.
William brings sir simon and the rest of the statues to life.
Phillips a caring nanny.
He is a bit rusty and weak.
This is a quest fantasy with the added fillip of miniaturization.
Beef with broccoli and chicken with cashews.
It s almost too real.
Phillips william s governess and friend since the day he was born is leaving the household to return to her home and family in england.
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.
Sure enough when william picks up the tiny silver knight sir simon comes alive in his hand and tells william a mighty story of wild sorcery wizards and a kingdom in need of saving.
For those two books.
Sir simon is the silver knight.
Castle in the attic.
The castle in the attic is a children s fantasy novel by elizabeth winthrop and illustrator trina schart hyman first published in 1985 the novel has won the dorothy canfield fisher children s book award and the california young reader medal.
How did sir simon get the first janus token.
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.
What two chinese meals did william and his dad make or plan to make.
What color pennant flag was on alastor s castle before his defeat.
In my mother s house spanned the years 1886 to 1971 and it took place in new york city and the tobacco growing fields in connecticut.
It looked fun adventuresome inventive and certainly is.
The castle in the attic by elizabeth winthrop missed my radar when i was a child in 1985.
The sequel is more of a straight up adventure story but does have the same type of cross cultural charm in.
I wrote two popular books for children called the castle in the attic and the battle for the castle in which a boy leaves this world and travels back in time to england in the middle ages.
The castle in the attic book unit.
Because alastor s spells are broken the forest is no longer dangerous and the famine ends.
Free samples from the castle in the attic book unit.
He wants to reclaim his kingdom from alastor.
William is given a realistic model of a castle by his family s english.
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.
