Howl’s Moving Castle

By: Diana Wynne Jones

Narrated by: John Sessions

‘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.

©1986 Diana Wynne Jones

Critic reviews

"One of the greatest ever writers for children" – Garth Nix

"A true original" – Katherine Rundell

“Imaginative and terribly funny” – Michael Morpurgo

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“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

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Any additional comments?

You think you like the movie?
Well wait to you listen to this bad-boy! You'll fall in love with Howl all over again, and some more too!!

abridged

while I love this book I didn't notice that it was abridged until i started it. so its rather watered down, just a warning but I like it just the same.

New favorite book

And i dare say better than the movie? Even i love hayao mizaki this was too good to be true