Howl’s Moving Castle
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4.6 • 122 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
‘One of the greatest ever writers for children’ – Garth Nix
‘A true original’ – Katherine Rundell
‘Truly magical … Guaranteed to leave you gasping’ The Bookseller
‘She is the best writer of magical fantasy for children’ Evening Standard
Deciding she has nothing more to lose, Sophie makes her way to the moving castle that hovers on the hills above her town, Market Chipping. But the castle belongs to the dreaded Wizard Howl, whose appetite, they say, is satisfied only by the souls of young girls…
There Sophie meets Michael, Howl’s apprentice, and Calcifer the fire demon, with whom she agrees a pact. Her entanglements with Calcifer, Howl and Michael and her quest to break her curse come alive with Diana Wynne Jones’s unique combination of magic, humour and imagination.
Reviews
"One of the greatest ever writers for children" – Garth Nix
"A true original" – Katherine Rundell
“Imaginative and terribly funny” – Michael Morpurgo
THE TELEGRAPH – 100 Best Books a Child Should Read
“Wit and humor glint from the pages" – THE HORN BOOK
Praise for Diana Wynne Jones
“…Her hallmarks include laugh-aloud humour, plenty of magic and imaginative array of alternate worlds. Yet, at the same time, a great seriousness is present in all of her novels, a sense of urgency that links Jones’s most outrageous plots to her readers’ hopes and fears…” – Publishers Weekly
“Diana Wynne Jones ought to be crowned with coloured garlands because she is the best writer of magical fantasy for children in this country ” – Evening Standard
“Diana Wynne Jones could teach Stephen King and JK Rowling a thing or two … [she] has a skill for inserting just the right amount of detail in her written words, leaving you satiated but not stuffed.” – SFX
About the author
Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011) spent her childhood in Essex and began writing fantasy novels for children in the 1970s. With her unique combination of magic, humour and imagination, she enthralled generations of children and adults with her work. She won the Guardian Award in 1977 with Charmed Life, was runner-up for the Children's Book Award in 1981 and was twice runner-up for the Carnegie Medal.
Customer Reviews
Loved this book!
Absolutely loved this book, it is a great laugh with plot twists that had me turning the pages and unable to put the book down. Thank you Diana.
A beautiful read
After loving the Studio Ghibli film for many years I finally found the book, although different from the movie I still enjoyed reading about Howl, Calcifer, Sophie and Michael and all the other characters that made this book come to life
Loved this book
I read this after watching Hayao Miyazaki's movie adaptation (Studio Ghibli anime)
I loved the movie, and while I found the book quite different to the movie story in some instances, I still loved the book as much as I loved the movie.
Reading the book gave a lot of clarification to the names of the characters, more so than I got from the movie - Howl being from the country of Wales in our own world for example made him being called "the Great Wizard Jenkins"
Highly recommend this book