Using her own cleverness-with a lot of help from a talking cat-she decides to show the witch who's boss. Most children would run in terror from a house like that. Recently I was in the mood for some Diana Wynne Jones so I picked up Earwig and the Witch. Diana Wynne Jones is one of my favorite authors and I wasn't sure I was reading to have read all of her books, as silly as that sounds. Earwig is whisked off to their mysterious house full of invisible rooms, potions, and spell books, with magic around every corner. I put off reading Earwig and the Witch because it was the last novel published by Diana Wynne Jones, who died in 2011. But all that changes the day Bella Yaga and the Mandrake come to St. She gets whatever she wants, whenever she wants it, and it's been that way since she was dropped on the orphanage doorstep as a baby. Morwald's Home for Children, but Earwig does. Not every orphan would love living at St. When she finds herself in a house of dark magic, she does whatever she can to adapt-especially if it means that she'll learn a little magic herself! A young middle grade novel by World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement‒winner Diana Wynne Jones, beautifully illustrated in black and white by Caldecott Medalist Paul O. In this enchanting introduction to Diana Wynne Jones's magical and funny work, Earwig is a fearless young orphan. "I would like to declare Diana Wynne Jones an international treasure," proclaimed Neil Gaiman, Newbery Medalist and best-selling author.
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