The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase Sequence)

The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase Sequence)

by Joan Aiken (Author)

Synopsis

After braving a treacherous journey through snow-covered wastes, Sylvia joins her cousin Bonnie in the warmth and safety of Willoughby Chase. They narrowly avoid a gory lupine death, but with Bonnie's parents overseas and the evil governess, Miss Slighcarp, left in charge, they find their human predatorsmore dangerous.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Red Fox
Published: 05 Apr 2001

ISBN 10: 0099411865
ISBN 13: 9780099411864
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years

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A writer of wild humour. - Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
Author Bio
JOAN AIKEN was born in Sussex in 1924. She said, There were very few children of my age for miles around so books were my friends. She grew up eager to be a writer What I wanted to do was give somebody else the absolute joy and excitement and pleasure that I had myself. Aiken wrote over a hundred books for young readers and adults. She is most famous for creating a historical period that never existed that began with The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase (1962) and continued with Black Hearts in Battersea (1964), The Whispering Mountain (1968), for which she won the Guardian children's book prize, and Dido and Pa (1986). Joan Aiken died in 2004.