I too read "The Green Kingdom" long ago in paperback, loaned it to all my friends until it finally fell apart! Its magical atmosphere stayed with me, and when Amazon.com offered the possibility of looking for it, I jumped! and was so pleased to find the new edition (expensive though it is). Read this book and enter into a totally new world that combines a new landscape, music, love and loss, resembling ours in many ways, but exotically different too.

The Green Kingdom is one of the most beautiful stories I have ever read. To think that this book was written by a young author and it was begun in 1912, her perceptions of people is very mature. The relationships are varied and real and the descriptions she gives of the Green Kingdom allows you to completely recreate every animal and plant in your own mind. I recommend this book to everyone whom I know likes to read. I would like to thank Nancy Walker for reprinting Mrs Maddux' work for a new generation. I first read the book in 1969, many times, loaned it out and never got it back. I spent the next 20 years trying to find another copy. Thanks to Ms Walker's reprints, I was able to locate one at the Strand in NY and now I have purchased one from Amazon.com. I never want to be without one in my possession again.