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Genre/Form: | Children's stories Fantasy fiction Humorous fiction Fiction Juvenile works Juvenile fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Diana Wynne Jones; Greenwillow Books, |
ISBN: | 0688062334 9780688062330 9780061478789 0061478784 006441034X 9780064410342 0060298812 9780060298814 |
OCLC Number: | 12582402 |
Language Note: | Text in English. |
Notes: | In printed pictorial paper jacket; publisher's price on page [2] of jacket; title vignette; copyright and edition statements from title verso. |
Awards: | Boston Globe/Horn Book Fiction Honor, 1986. |
Description: | 212 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | In which Sophie talks to hats -- In which Sophie is compelled to seek her fortune -- In which Sophie enters into a castle and a bargain -- In which Sophie discovers several strange things -- Which is far too full of washing -- In which Howl expresses his feelings with green slime -- In which a scarecrow prevents Sophie from leaving the castle -- In which Sophie leaves the castle in several directions at once -- In which Michael has trouble with a spell -- In which Calcifer promises Sophie a hint -- In which Howl goes to a strange country in search of a spell -- In which Sophie becomes Howl's old mother -- In which Sophie blackens Howl's name -- In which a royal wizard catches a cold -- In which Howl goes to a funeral in disguise -- In which there is a great deal of witchcraft -- In which the moving castle moves house -- In which the scarecrow and Miss Angorian reappear -- In which Sophie expresses her feelings with weed-killer -- In which Sophie finds further difficulties in leaving the castle -- In which a contract is concluded before witnesses. |
Responsibility: | Diana Wynne Jones. |
More information: |
Abstract:
Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.
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