With my Knife — Andrew Lansdown

Colyn finds a knife buried in the potato paddock where he is working with his father and immediately his heart is drawn to it. It is the best knife he has ever seen and it is his. But is it really chance that has led him to its discovery? Colyn soon learns that there is not only beauty in the knife, but magic, too; and with the magic come power and danger. For, with his knife, Colyn opens a doorway into a mysterious otherworld, and here he becomes involved in an adventure more exciting and more perilous than he could ever have imagined. With My Knife (published in the USA as Beyond the Open Door) was shortlisted for both the National Children's Book Award and the Western Australian Young Readers' Book Award. A thrilling and moving story for young and old readers alike. Read alone or together with the other The Chronicles of Klarin stories, With My Knife is the first novel in the trilogy.