The Green Book

Jill Paton Walsh

Mar 2012 · Sold by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

About this ebook

Jill Paton Walsh's classic science fiction novel The Green Book is now available from Square Fish with a brand–new cover!

Pattie and her family are among the last refugees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship. And when the group finally lands on the distant planet which is to be their new home, it seems that the four-year journey has been a success. But as they begin to settle this shiny new world, they discover that the colony is in serious jeopardy. Nothing on this planet is edible, and they may not be able to grow food. With supplies dwindling, Pattie and her sister decide to take the one chance that might make life possible on Shine.

Ratings and reviews

This was read to my class by my fifth grade teacher. I loved it then, & years later struggled to remember it's title. Finally, about 25 years later, a Google search helped me find it again! I downloaded it, and read it in one sitting. Such a haunting, lovely story, that stuck with me all these years. I can't wait to share it with my children, after school!

Read it when I was younger and haven't been able to remember the name until now!

The green book was very interesting you had lots of questions and that made you think about what they will do next.

About the author

Jill Paton Walsh (1937-2020) was an award-winning author of many books for children, young adults, and adults including The Green Book, A Parcel of Patterns, the Booker Prize shortlisted Knowledge of Angels, and the Whitbread Prize winner The Emperor’s Winding Sheet. She completed Dorothy L. Sayers’ unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane mystery manuscript, the international bestseller Thrones, Dominations, and continued Sayers’ series with A Presumption of Death, The Attenbury Emeralds, and The Late Scholar. In 1996, Walsh was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for services to literature.