Children of the New Forest

by Frederick Marryat, CAPTAIN. MARRYAT, Captain Marryat

Book Overview

When Jacob Armitage, a local verderer, hears that Parliamentary soldiers looking for King Charles I are planning to burn down the home of the Beverley orphans he saves the children and rears them as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854712527
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Bummed- condition was not as described.

I can’t give the actual book a review, because I haven’t read it... but I bought a “Like New” Book and it was not even close to new. Cover and side of book bent and stickers all over cover.

Really good children's book.

This is a unique book with a quality and style that is timeless. True classic that every child would greatly benefit from reading.

The best book I have ever read...

The Children of the new forest is a brilliant insight into what england was like in the 15th century. It tells how four wealthy children are without warning suddenly plunged into poverty, when the roundheads fire their house looking for the king. It tells how the heir of the burnt house and his brother and sisters strive to become what they should have been without the roundheads. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to get hooked on something, but is not too hard. It is an excellent book to learn from and look at carefully, and is gripping to the very end.

Mystery, action, The Children of the New Forest has it all.

The Children of the New Forest is a lovely book. Set in England, in the New Forest at the time of Charles 2, children escape being burned to death in their own home. Living with an old forester, they have to learn to survive, no longer able to be considered rich. Do they survive in the forest? There is only one way to find out, children and adults alike will love this captivating story.

This book is an exciting, historic adventure.

Children of the New Forest is a lost gem. It enthralled me as a child. I could see myself, very bravely taking care of my siblings in a dangerous and mysterious time.Being able to, from necessity, live off the land and elude the enemy. This story may be historically accurate, in regards to the politics of the time, but it is current in the imagination of a young person. I read this book as a teenager at the suggestion of my mother. We never quite saw eye to eye on things, but this story bridged the generation. Now, I reccomend it to you and my daughter, be careful, you may find yourself throwing on a cape, hopping onto a horse and riding off into the woods!

A lovely story for children and teenagers.

I first struggled through it when I was ten years old. I loved it and read it cover to cover perhaps twenty times during my teans. It is set in England during the late 1600's at the time of the Cavaliers and Roundheads. It uses language to the full, expanding childrens' vocabulary.It's one of the best children's books I have read; my only criticism is that the author rather hurries the ending. Now at age 46 I am reading it to my children. Why was there only one of these?