Howl's Moving Castle
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The illustrations on our cover are taken from Starting School by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, published by Viking Kestrel (0 670 81688 4, £6.95). We are grateful to Viking Kestrel for help in using these illustrations.
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Howl's Moving Castle
Here is another of this author's fast-paced novels, full of exuberance, ingenuity and fun, which will intrigue young readers from beginning to end. Poor old Sophie Hatter, the eldest of three girls, seems set to get nothing right and then, to cap it all, the Witch of the Waste magic's her to the age of 90 before her time. As if that's not enough, her sisters have each swapped places and Wizard Howl is trundling his castle around the neighbourhood looking for maidens' hearts to break. Throw in a Fire Demon and an assortment of the zaniest characters and double-crossers, and you have a fine feast of fairy tale fantasy.