Lucy M. Boston’s classic tales of “The Children of Green Knowe” will be getting big screen treatment beginning this fall.

Ealing Studios Intl. has signed on actor-turned- director Julian Fellowes (“Separate Lies”) to helm the project that will be titled “From Time to Time.” Fellowes also will adapt the screenplay from Boston’s works.

Like the series of Boston books, “Time” will center around a young lad named Toseland as he is sent off to live with his grandmother in the ancestral home located in the mysterious Green Knowe, a magical place filled with adventure and charm where one can never be too sure where reality begins and imagination continues. The plot thickens when the boy is magically transported back in time to appear as a ghost to solve an age-old mystery.

The boy and his peculiar, but loving grandma speak with and interact with (real or imaginged) animals and children. Are they real or just faint images of an old woman’s memories…..or, could they and Toseland really be ghosts? If the film stays true to the books, then we’ll never know for sure. What we do know is that from this magical place, Toseland begins learning what it means to have a wonderful and endearing family past.

The film stars Maggie Smith (Harry Potter films), Timothy Spall (Harry Potter films, “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”), Hugh Bonneville (“Tsunami: The Aftermath”), Anne Reid (“Doctor Who”) and Laurence Richardson (“Quantum of Solace”).