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Overview

In the land of Ingary, such things as spells, invisible cloaks, and seven-league boots were everyday things. The Witch of the Waste was another matter.

After fifty years of quiet, it was rumored that the Witch was about to terrorize the country again. So when a moving black castle, blowing dark smoke from its four thin turrets, appeared on the horizon, everyone thought it was the Witch. The castle, however, belonged to Wizard Howl, who, it was said, liked to suck the souls of young girls.

The Hatter sisters—Sophie, Lettie, and Martha—and all the other girls were warned not to venture ...

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Overview

In the land of Ingary, such things as spells, invisible cloaks, and seven-league boots were everyday things. The Witch of the Waste was another matter.

After fifty years of quiet, it was rumored that the Witch was about to terrorize the country again. So when a moving black castle, blowing dark smoke from its four thin turrets, appeared on the horizon, everyone thought it was the Witch. The castle, however, belonged to Wizard Howl, who, it was said, liked to suck the souls of young girls.

The Hatter sisters—Sophie, Lettie, and Martha—and all the other girls were warned not to venture into the streets alone. But that was only the beginning.

In this giant jigsaw puzzle of a fantasy, people and things are never quite what they seem. Destinies are intertwined, identities exchanged, lovers confused. The Witch has placed a spell on Howl. Does the clue to breaking it lie in a famous poem? And what will happen to Sophie Hatter when she enters Howl's castle?

Diana Wynne Jones's entrancing fantasy is filled with surprises at every turn, but when the final stormy duel between the Witch and the Wizard is finished, all the pieces fall magically into place.

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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In Wynne Jones' fantasy universe there is always odd magic cropping up. When the reluctant milliner Sophie talks to her hats, unfortunately they listen. It is unfortunate, because in unwittingly giving futures to her hats' purchasers, she brings down the wrath of the Witch of the Waste. A quick visit by the witch, a short spell, and seventeen-year-old Sophie is aged sixty years. Undaunted, Sophie hobbles off to seek her fortune as a cleaning woman in the moving castle of the young wizard Howl—and the fun begins. Shortly Sophie has the entire establishment well in hand, even the vain clothes-horse Howl. But finding an end to her spell is another matter. Wynne Jones' castle is a marvelous conceit—four doors open onto four different locations, and the whole is moved by Howl's talking fire demon, Calcifer. In this first of three interconnected stories (followed by Castle in the Air, 1990, and House of Many Ways, 2008), Wynne Jones creates the memorable characters who believably people her country of Ingary in an alternate, late Victorian-era world. Reviewer: Kathleen Karr
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Gr 6 Up Sophie Hatter reads a great deal and soon realizes that as the eldest of three daughters she is doomed to an uninteresting future. She resigns herself to making a living as a hatter and helping her younger sisters prepare to make their fortunes. But adventure seeks her out in the shop where she sits alone, dreaming over her hats. The wicked Witch of the Waste, angered by ``competition'' in the area, turns her into a old woman, so she seeks refuge inside the strange moving castle of the wizard Howl. Howl, advertised by his apprentice as an eater of souls, lives a mad, frantic life trying to escape the curse the witch has placed on him, find the perfect girl of his dreams and end the contract he and his fire demon have entered. Sophie, against her best instincts and at first unaware of her own powers, falls in love. So goes this intricate, humorous and puzzling tale of fantasy and adventure which should both challenge and involve readers. Jones has created an engaging set of characters and found a new use for many of the appurtenances of fairy talesseven league boots and invisible cloaks, among others. At times, the action becomes so complex that readers may have to go back to see what actually happened, and at the end so many loose ends have to be tied up at once that it's dizzying. Yet Jones' inventiveness never fails, and her conclusion is infinitely satisfying. Sara Miller, White Plains Public Library, N.Y.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780061478789
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 4/22/2008
  • Pages: 429
  • Sales rank: 1,500
  • Age range: 10 - 14 Years
  • Lexile: 0800L (what's this?)
  • Series: Howl's Castle Series, #1
  • Product dimensions: 5.10 (w) x 7.50 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Meet the Author

In a career spanning four decades, award-winning author Diana Wynne Jones wrote more than forty books of fantasy for young readers. Characterized by magic, multiple universes, witches and wizards—and a charismatic nine-lived enchanter—her books were filled with unlimited imagination, dazzling plots, and an effervescent sense of humor that earned her legendary status in the world of fantasy. From the very beginning, Diana Wynne Jones’s books garnered literary accolades: her novel Dogsbody was a runner-up for the 1975 Carnegie Medal, and Charmed Life won the esteemed Guardian children’s fiction prize in 1977. Since then, in addition to being translated into more than twenty languages, her books have earned a wide array of honors—including two Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honors—and appeared on countless best-of-the-year lists.

Her work also found commercial success: In 1992 the BBC adapted her novel Archer’s Goon into a six-part miniseries, and her bestselling Howl’s Moving Castle was made into an animated film by Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki in 2004. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in 2006, and became one of the most financially successful Japanese films in history.

Diana Wynne Jones has also been honored with many prestigious awards for the body of her work. She was given the British Fantasy Society’s Karl Edward Wagner Award in 1999 for having made a significant impact on fantasy, received a D.Lit from Bristol University in 2006, and won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Fantasy Convention in 2007.

Born just outside London in 1934, Diana Wynne Jones had a childhood that was “very vivid and often very distressing”—one that became the fertile ground where her tremendous imagination took root. When the raids of World War II reached London in 1939, the five-year-old girl and her two younger sisters were torn from their suburban life and sent to Wales to live with their grandparents. This was to be the first of many migrations, one of which brought her family to Lane Head, a large manor in the author-populated Lake District and former residence of John Ruskin’s secretary, W.G . Collingwood. This time marked an important moment in Diana Wynne Jones’s life, where her writing ambitions were magnified by, in her own words, “early marginal contacts with the Great.” She confesses to having “offending Arthur Ransome by making a noise on the shore beside his houseboat,” erasing a stack of drawings by the late Ruskin himself in order to reuse the paper, and causing Beatrix Potter (who also lived nearby) to complain about her and her sister’s behavior. “It struck me,” Jones said, “that the Great were remarkably touchy and unpleasant, and I thought I would like to be the same, without the unpleasantness.” Prompted by her penny-pinching father’s refusal to buy the children any books, Diana Wynne Jones wrote her first novel at age twelve and entertained her sisters with readings of her stories. Those early stories—and much of her future work—were inspired by a limited but crucial foundation of classics: Malory’s Morte D’Arthur, The Arabian Nights, and Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages.

Fantasy was Jones’s passion from the start, despite receiving little support from her often neglectful parents. This passion was fueled further during her tenure at St. Anne’s College in Oxford, where lectures by J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis increased her fascination with myth and legend. She married Medievalist John Burrow in 1956; the couple have three sons and six grandchildren.

After a decade of rejections, Diana Wynne Jones’s first novel, Changeover, was published in 1970. In 1973, she joined forces with her lifelong literary agent, Laura Cecil, and in the four decades to follow, Diana Wynne Jones wrote prodigiously, sometimes completing three titles in a single year. Along the way she gained a fiercely loyal following; many of her admirers became successful authors themselves, including Newbery Award winners Robin McKinley and Neil Gaiman, and Newbery Honor Book author Megan Whalen Turner. A conference dedicated solely to her work was held at the University of West England, Bristol, in 2009. Diana Wynne Jones continued to write during her battle with lung cancer, which ultimately took her life in March 2011. Her last book, Earwig and the Witch, will be published by Greenwillow Books in 2012.

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Chapter One

In which Sophie talks to hats

In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.

Sophie Hatter was the eldest of three sisters. She was not even the child of a poor woodcutter, which might have given her some chance of success. Her parents were well to do and kept a ladies' hat shop in the prosperous town of Market Chipping. True, her own mother died when Sophie was two years old and her sister Lettie was one year old, and their father married his youngest shop assistant, a pretty blonde girl called Fanny. Fanny shortly gave birth to the third sister, Martha. This ought to have made Sophie and Lettle into Ugly Sisters, but in fact all three girls grew up very pretty indeed, though Lettie was the one everyone said was most beautiful. Fanny treated all three girls with the same kindness and did not favor Martha in the least.

Mr. Hatter was proud of his three daughters and sent them all to the best school in town. Sophie was the most studious. She read a great deal, and very soon realized how little chance she had of an interesting future. It was a disappointment to her, but she was still happy enough, looking after her sisters and grooming Martha to seek her fortune when the time came. Since Fanny was always busy in the shop, Sophie was the one who looked after the younger two. There was a certain amount of screaming and hairpulling between those younger two. Lettie was by no means resignedto being the one who, next to Sophie, was bound to be the least successful.

"It's not fair!" Lettie would shout. "Why should Martha have the best of it just because she was born the youngest? I shall marry a prince, so there!"

To which Martha always retorted that she would end up disgustingly rich without having to marry anybody.

Then Sophie would have to drag them apart and mend their clothes. She was very deft with her needle. As time went on, she made clothes for her sisters too. There was one deep rose outfit she made for Lettie, the May Day before this story really starts, which Fanny said looked as if it had come from the most expensive shop in Kingsbury.

About this time everyone began talking of the Witch of the Waste again. It was said the Witch had threatened the life of the King's daughter and that the King had commanded his personal magician, Wizard Suliman, to go into the Waste and deal with the Witch. And it seemed that Wizard Stillman had not only failed to deal with the Witch: he had got himself killed by her.

So when, a few months after that, a tall black castle suddenly appeared on the hills above Market Chipping, blowing clouds of black smoke from its four tall, thin turrets, everybody was fairly sure that the Witch had moved out of the Waste again and was about to terrorize the country the way she used to fifty years ago. People got very scared indeed. Nobody went out alone, particularly at night. What made it all the scarier was that the castle did not stay in the same place. Sometimes it was a tall black smudge on the moors to the northwest, sometimes it reared above the rocks to the east, and sometimes it came right downhill to sit in the heather only just beyond the last farm to the north. You could see it actually moving sometimes, with smoke pouring out from the turrets in dirty gray gusts. For a while everyone was certain that the castle would come right down into the valley before long, and the Mayor talked of sending to the King for help.

But the castle stayed roving about the hills, and it was learned that it did not belong to the Witch but toWizard Howl. Wizard Howl was bad enough. Though he did not seem to want to leave the hills, he was known to amuse himself by collecting young girls and sucking the souls from them. Or some people said he ate their hearts. He was an utterly cold-blooded and heartless wizard and no young girl was safe from him if he caught her on her own. Sophie, Lettie, and Martha, along with all the other girls in Market Chipping, were warned never to go out alone, which was a great annoyance to them. They wondered what use Wizard Howl found for all the souls he collected.

They had other things on their minds before long, however, for Mr. Hatter died suddenly just as Sophie was old enough to leave school for good. It then appeared that Mr. Hatter had been altogether too proud of his daughters. The school fees he had been paying had left the shop with quite heavy debts. When the funeral was over, Fanny sat down in the parlor in the house next door to the shop and explained the situation.

"You'll all have to leave that school, I'm afraid," she said. "I've been doing sums back and front and sideways, and the only way I can see to keep the business going and take care of the three of you is to see you all settled in a promising apprenticeship somewhere. It isn't practical to have you all in the shop. I can't afford it. So this is what I've decided. Lettie first -- "

Howl's Moving Castle. Copyright © by Diana Jones. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.
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  • Posted March 18, 2009

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    Sophie is sure that her life is meant to come to nothing, because where she lives the eldest child is always ill-fated. So when times get tough for her family she is content to stay home and work in the family hat shop while her two younger sisters go off to bright futures working in a bakery and learning magic. But when the Witch of the Waste comes into her shop one day and casts a spell on Sophie, making her appear old, she decides to set off into the wider world where she knows no one.

    When her old bones become tired at the end of her first day of wandering, she finds herself at the edge of the wizard Howl's castle. The castle is enchanted; it moves and blows puffs of smoke constantly. Although Sophie is afraid of Howl because she heard he eats young girls' souls, in the guise of an old woman she thinks she will be safe. With thoughts of finding a warm fireside and a comfy chair, Sophie goes into the castle.

    She finds Howl's assistant Michael, and his fire demon, Calcifer, but Howl is not in. As Sophie makes herself useful and becomes a part of the castle life, she begins to learn more and more about Howl, Calcifer and Michael. Gradually, as she gets to know them, they become like a second family to her. But can she keep Howl from being taken by the Witch of the Waste? And can she break a magical spell that binds Calcifer to Howl, so the spell on her can be broken as well?

    Howl's Moving Castle brings up issues of creating family for yourself and seeing people for who they truly are, despite the masks they put up to keep others at a distance. It's about finding love and acceptance, and not being afraid to look for the magic in small moments. The castle itself is fascinating, with its door leading to different villages depending on which colored-button is facing down, its ability to move its location and its permanent window looking onto a sunny port town. Our mother-daughter book club members thought the ending felt a bit rushed, but otherwise we all enjoyed reading it and talking about Sophie, Howl and all the characters. I recommend it for book clubs with daughters aged 13 and up.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 31, 2008

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    A Lover of Fantasy

    This is the best fantasy book I have ever read. The characters are extremely likeable and not one-dimensional. The humor included is great and I love the hilarious situations that Howl creates due to his vanity. The plot is engaging and Howl's Moving Castle is one of those books that you just can't put down. I have read this book over and over again and stil it fails to bore me. Readers beware: Make sure that you give yourself time for it will most likely be that you finish this book in one sitting!

    6 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 24, 2011

    Great Read, but not a great e-book

    Howl's moving castle is a wonderful book. It's a quick, fun read, and the writing style of Diana Wynne Jones makes you feel like you're reading an old fairy tale and adds greatly to the charm of the story. However, I don't suggest purchasing this story for the nook. The e-book is filled with typos, which are few and far between when you start out, but then become so frequent that they're actually a distraction, and it doesn't help matters that the occasional word is missing. All in all, the ebook feels as though it were carelessly put together, which I don't remember being the case with the plain old paperback edition. It was a bit of a disappointment.

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  • Posted December 8, 2009

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    A Whimsical Fantasy That Anyone Will Love

    Howl's Moving Castle was recommended to me by a friend who praised it highly. Needless to say I had high expectations, and Diana Wynne Jones did not disappoint. Howl's Moving Castle is the story of a girl named Sophie who accidentally upsets a witch causing her to turn Sophie into an old woman. With nothing to lose, Sophie sets out to seek her fortune. Along the way, she encounters many strange and magical creatures, none more strange or magical than the feared Wizard Howl. Sophie decides to move in with Wizard Howl and his apprentice Michael, and live with them in their fantastic Moving Castle. While there, Sophie makes a pact with a sarcastic fire demon named Calcifer. Calcifer promises to lift the the spell that has been placed on Sophie if she promises to break his contract with Wizard Howl. In her quest to break the contract, Sophie will discover the true Wizard Howl and learn the secrets of the amazing moving castle.
    While very well written, there are some parts of the story that could be confusing to a younger or less educated reader. This being said, I literally could not bring myself to put this book down as I was reading it. It was as if it were glued to my hands! I heartily recommend this book for anyone with an extensive vocabulary and a reasonable amount of imagination. I also would advise you to see the movie after reading the book because some things will make much more sense. All in all, Howl's Moving Castle is an enchanting story that you will want to read again and again.

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  • Posted August 14, 2011

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    Wonderful! But not a great copy.

    I am thoroughly enjoying this book. It is a complete delight and worth reading every page; however, at the time I purchased it, it has a lamentable and unacceptable number of typographical errors in it for a paid-for book. It gets quite distracting. I'm not sure I would buy an ebook from this same publisher again, since it seems like they don't deliver even standard publishable quality.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted April 4, 2009

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    This is a wonderful book

    I would recommend this book for all ages! However, the book is very different from the movie, it is still very wonderful and catches your attention on every page.

    Sophie, is the eldest of three sisters, she has to stay behind to take over her fathers hat shop while her two other sisters move on to different apprentices. One day while she is working in the hat shop the wicked witch of the waste pays her a visit and tuns her in to an old woman.

    Sophie, is so embarrased by what she has become that she sets out on an adventure. When she gets tired and can't move any more howl's castle appears and she ends up letting herself in. After that she ends up working for howl as a maid.

    At first Sophie is afraid of howl because of all the rumors she has been hearing, but soon finds out that she grows more and more fond of him with each day passing.

    When I read this book i could not put it down!!! She also has a sequal to this book called house of many ways which is also a wonderful read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 16, 2009

    If you like the movie...

    If you like the movie, you may or may not like the book. The movie takes many liberties that have nothing to do with the book at all. However, the redeeming factor about the movie vs. book is that they are so different that they are two separate entities. I enjoy both immensely!

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  • Posted January 21, 2009

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    Loved It!

    The story captivates you so much! It's imaginative and unlike any story you've read! It's AMAZING!

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 25, 2005

    Awesome!

    One reason why this book is hard to put down is because it is 100 percent original. You'll never know what will happen next. Humorous, wily, and detailed, this is a great book to add to anyone's fantasy collection.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 16, 2003

    Funny!

    I think this book is one of those few stories that stay with you throughout your life. I've never read anything so peculiar but hey..! It's all good! I really enjoyed the twists and hidden messages within the story. For some reason I really liked Michael. I have no idea why. Maybe it's because he freaked out when Sophie began cleaning up the place.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 28, 2002

    Something about it really pulled at me...

    I didn't think this sounded like a very interesting book at first(the first chapter was a little bland) but I soon found myself reading this book everywhere I went, even at a denny's restaurant with my grandparents. I finished it craving more. That's the kind of reader I am, but seriously, this book was very good. It had everything. Comedy, drama, fantasy things, a good plot, romance, and great characters. Especially Howl. Email me if you agree with me about this book, or just want to talk about it. :D

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  • Posted December 20, 2011

    Highly Recommend!

    This was a fantastic read. I had seen the movie a while before sitting down to read the book. It more than lived up to the hype created to the movie and did not disappoint at all. The world so much larger than the movie shows, and it offers so much more background into the characters and their actions. I highly recommend to anyone who might be interested, they will not be disappointed; fans of the movie or newcomers will enjoy immensely. I cannot wait to get my hands on the rest of the series!

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  • Posted November 30, 2011

    Story is Ok, Typos are not

    The only real complaint I have about the ebook is there are obvious typos throughout. Somebody proofread, please?

    Also, the book itself is alright. There's not a ton of character development so far, and I feel like I barely know anyone in the book. Calcifer is perhaps the most memorable character, but the story is interesting.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 26, 2011

    Best book I ever read!

    Very well written book and I loved the movie!

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  • Posted November 15, 2011

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    Very Cute

    I Loved this book, i thought it was a wonderful quick read. Although it is nothing like the movie. I like the book much better than the movie, it had a lot more detail more adventure, and was all around much more intriguing.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 9, 2011

    Awesome

    Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 1, 2011

    To....erm... anonymous, about your concerns

    This is a fantastic young adult/childrens book ( that was also made into a charming anime movie) that i think you will enjoy. It is a fantasy, but it doesn't contain anything graphic. Go ahead and read it! And loosen up a little!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 7, 2011

    Thanx 4 the review

    Very helpful.i think i'll wait a while,though,since i'm reading lives of the monster dogs right now.....lol ya i should loosen up:3

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 20, 2011

    A must read

    This the bast book i have read in a long time. I simply could not put it down. If u are looking for a great book to fead congradulations u just found it. This is a must read book.

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  • Posted September 17, 2011

    Great but

    I was reading and i noticed a mistake it said a package or bread and cheese,other than that great!

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