Beyond the Open Door
Andrew Lansdown
Scholastic (New York), 1993
ISBN 0-590-47160-0
Beyond the Open Door is an American edition of With My Knife.
(See the With My Knife page on this website.)
The text is the same. Only the title and the cover have been changed.
The initial print run of 42,000 books was sold out within eighteen months. It has not been reprinted.
However, the Australian edition, With My Knife, has (as of May, 2008) entered its eighth printing and is still available from bookshops in Australia and New Zealand.
Reviews from Amazon.com
This book is very scary. Colyn cut a piece of cardboard that let to another world. It may have to do with the strange knife he used to cut it. When he starts seeing the dragons coming he was to think of a wise plan. Andrew Lansdown did a great job with this book. BUY IT!
Focusing on the loneliness and seclusion of a boy and his father, Beyond the Open Door emphasizs the imagination as a Colyn, a farm boy, carves peices of wood that seem to change…
When I read this book for the first time in 7th grade, I stopped reading books altogether. It wasn’t because the book was bad, it was because it was so good. I wanted a sequel, and they just never had it; thus, I never read for fun again until senior year, when I rediscovered the book.
4.0 out of 5 stars Favourite Childhood Book, February 15, 2013
By Whitney Allen