![]() Howl’s Moving Castle: ”In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three. And I’ll tell about Them too, who made us that way.” ![]() I’ll tell you about them in the right place and about Helen and Joris, Adam and Konstam, and Vanessa, the sister Adam wanted to sell as a slave. ![]() The Homeward Bounders: ”Have you heard of the Flying Dutchman? No? Nor of the Wandering Jew? Well, it doesn’t matter. Her stories pull you in from the first paragraph.ĭrowned Ammet: ”People may wonder how Mitt came to join in the Holand Sea Festival, carrying a bomb, and what he thought he was doing. Wynne Jones had an astounding ability to weave a story. Reading them, I realized that this was a substantial writer. Atheneum published Drowned Ammet and The Spellcoats. But she was an English writer and she had only written four other books at that point, so her books were not easy to find. ![]() It was Cart and Cwidder and I was determined to find everything else she had written. I first read a book by Diana Wynne Jones in 1976. ![]()
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