#The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase

[best-childhood-book]

#best childhood book #poll #the 13 1/2 lives of captain bluebear #middle school #rain reign #the books of beginning #tillerman cycle #ever #the incorrigible children of ashton place #the wolves of willoughby chase #leven thumps #greenglass house

[theartisticendeavor]

Vintage Hardcover - The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken

Art by Edward Gorey

Doubleday (1963)

#Hardcover #Edward Gorey #Joan Aiken #The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase #Wolves Of Willoughby Chase #Wolves #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Books #LIT #Vintage #Doubleday #Doubleday Books #1963 #1960s #60s

[pocket-size-cthulhu]

Hey what's a book/series from your childhood that you remember like one or two things about but can't remember anything else and are starting to question your own sanity as to whether the book even existed at all. Like what's the bit you can remember?

#for me it was a book with this Peter pan-like character in it #and for some reason one of the characters was weaving a dress for herself out of the night sky #but while she did it she wasn't allowed to think about anyone but herself or she wouldn't be able to weave it #I'm still confused about that #anyway #this was inspired by me forgetting almost everything about #The Wolves of Willoughby Chase #including the name of the series which i searched for years just to remember #good books #but i was starting to wonder if they ever existed at all lol #i still have my doubts about starlight dress girl #do you know this book?

[fiction-quotes]

The smile on Polly's face became real. She sorted through the books. The only one she had ever heard of was The Wizard of Oz. There were eleven others. Polly hovered a moment between Five Children and It and one most enticingly called The Treasure Seekers, and then picked up at random The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. She began to read it. She read for the rest of Christmas, mostly kneeling on the floor with her hair dangling round the book like a curtain, but sometimes, when a cousin crawled up and tried to grab the book, she took it away behind the sofa and crouched there in the shadows. She never head the television. She only vaguely heard Ivy saying, “It's no good speaking to Polly when she's reading, Maud. She's deaf and blind. Reg used to stop her. You let her be.”

Polly read greedily, picking up another book as soon as she had finished the first one. She felt like a drug addict. She had read The Box of Delights and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe too before she went home, and was beginning The Sword in the Stone. She read the rest in the week before school. Then she surfaced, with a flushed face and a deep sigh. The feast was over.

“And I only sent him a Christmas card!” she wailed.

  —  Fire and Hemlock (Diana Wynne Jones)

#book quotes #fantasy fiction #diana wynne jones #fire and hemlock #books #reading #presents #christmas #the wizard of oz #five children and it #the story of the treasure seekers #the wolves of willoughby chase #the box of delights #the lion the witch and the wardrobe #the sword in the stone #happiness #joy #contentment

[nochargebookbunch]

Read Me A Story

What better comfort on a lonely New Year’s Eve, with illegal rockets noisily blasting in the wind and the sound of fireworks promising a gawdy show of light, is to listen to a children’s story. When I read that Celeste Ng, author of some of my favorite books – Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts – had “among her favorites …a series by Joan Aiken, imagining a timeline where the English…

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#Celeste Ng #Children&039;s literature #Gothic #Joan Aiken #reading #The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Holding the Scottish rewilding community's faces with both hands and asking them if they've even read Wolves of Willoughby Chase

#'we NEED to reintroduce large predators' look I get it I get where you come from also maybe no a lttle bit maybe no #IT'S LIKE THEY HAVEN'T EVEN READ WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

It was dusk - winter dusk. Snow lay white and shining over the pleated hills, and icicles hung from the forest trees. Snow lay piled on the dark road across Willoughby Wold, but from dawn men had been clearing it with brooms and shovels. There were hundreds of them at work, wrapped in sacking because of the bitter cold, and keeping together in groups for fear of the wolves, grown savage and reckless from hunger.

Joan Aiken, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

#book quotes #Joan Aiken #wolves of Willoughby chase #children's literature #literature #books and reading #books and libraries #winter quotes

[harrison-abbott]

I’m reading this old Puffin book, called the Wolves of Willoughby Chase, by Joan Aiken.

Check out the book ^. What a front & back cover those are, right? Such spooky artwork. Nice lookin wee book indeed.

#wolves of willoughby chase #puffin books #joan aiken

[the-forest-library]

2022 Reading Challenge For People Who Want Something Simple

Thank you for putting together this challenge, @godzilla-reads! These prompts were fun.

This reading challenge is now complete!

January - A Book UNDER 300 Pages: Subtle Blood by K.J. Charles

February - Read a Book by a Female Author: The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren

March - Read a Piece of Classic Children’s Literature: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

April - A Book with a BLUE Cover: The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson

May - Read a Short Story/Essay Collection: Goodbye, Again by Jonny Sun

June - Choose a Light Fantasy Novel: Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer by Kelly Jones

July - Reread a Favorite of Your Choosing: Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

August - A Book with an Animal being the Main Character: Cornbread & Poppy by Matthew Cordell

September - Choose a Classic Literature Book (or a book more than 50 years old): The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken

October - Halloween/Samhain Book!! or Spoooooooky Poetry: What the Hex by Alexis Daria

November - Choose a Book to Read by a Native American Author: Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Maillard

December - A Book with a RED Cover: Two Wrongs Make a Right by Chloe Liese

#reading challenge #books #booklr #reading #bookish #bibliophile

[spiced-wine-fic]

Getting to know me questions

Thank you so much, dear @nocompromise-noregrets

three ships I like: 

Same as always. Glorfindel/Ecthelion, Fëanor/Fingolfin, Beleg/Túrin.

last song I heard: 

In the gym had a local radio station on and they were playing September, Earth, Wind and Fire. 

favourite childhood book: 

Very hard to choose as I read voraciously, but The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and Watership Down were two of my favourites. I also read a lot of series; anything with girls and ponies and also Willard Prince’s ‘Adventure’ series. Me and my oldest friend used to buy every book with our pocket money and chat about them every time we saw each other on our long walks over the fields.

I also loved the Ladybird books of What to Look For in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, such beautiful illustrations! 

I also used to to scare myself silly by reading and re-reading a ghost book which might have been by Usbourne or Hamlyn. It was in our school library which in itself was a gloomy old place so the atmosphere was spot-on, especially when the autumn days began to drawn in… It had that supposed photo of a ghost monk in Ripon church that absolutely refused to be forgotten, especially when I went to bed 😂 👻 (I know it’s been debunked but it wasn’t back then 🤣)

currently reading: 

I just had a book delivered called Canal Ghosts and Water Wights, The Spirits of Britain’s Waterways by Nick Ford, so I’m looking forward to that. 

currently watching: Nothing right now. 

currently craving: Nothing.

first ship ever: It would have been Fëanor/Fingolfin when I read the Silmarillion in 1980 something. 

Tagging @lucifers-cuvette, @jane-ways @cycas @sallysavestheday @naryaflame @awesome-bluehair-universe @nuredhel @hhimring @elennalore @thenookienostradamus @polutrope @pinksiamese@thranduilofsmirkwood and anyone else who’d like to do it.

#asks and answers

[thethirdromana]

Ten modern Dracula covers, rated

(by request of @mysticalspiders on my previous post of older covers)

A poor start from Penguin Classics, who seem to have confused their Dracula with their Nosferatu for this 2006 edition. Piddling little castle too. 2/10.

I had to look at this 2013 Vintage Children's Classics edition several times before I realised that their Dracula does not, in fact, have a man-bun. I'm a bit disappointed, and also adjusting the contrast settings on my laptop. 7/10, hope this unabridged edition leaves the children suitably traumatised.

Fair warning, we're going to see a lot of covers from assorted Penguin imprints - this is the 2003 audiobook (read by Richard E Grant, which sounds delightful) but the print edition had the same cover. It's Love and Pain by Edvard Munch, also known - not by him - as Vampire. Gains points for thematic relevance, loses them again for not depicting a specific scene in the book. 6/10.

I like this (Penguin Vintage Classics, 2011). It's subtle, it's a little bit sexy. It has the confidence that the reader knows what Dracula is about (after all, who doesn't?) and will put things together for themselves. 8/10.

More Penguin Vintage Classics, this time from 2007 (I did warn you). I'm getting strong vibes of the 2020 BBC Dracula, and the less said about that the better. 3/10.

OK. I might need to be a bit petty here. I get what they were going for at Modern Library Classics in 2002, I really do, BUT I do need to note that Lucy did not wear a crucifix on her choker. (She wore a diamond buckle, given to her by Arthur). She very much did not wear a crucifix on her choker. The story might have gone rather differently had she worn a crucifix on her choker. 4/10.

I'm a bit conflicted on this one. On the one hand, I like Edward Gorey, whose Dracula stage designs illustrate this 2021 Sterling edition. On the other hand, I'm not at all sold on the wings, and my favourite Edward Gorey illustrations are his wolves, e.g. in his cover for The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. There are wolves in Dracula, there could have been wolves here. 7/10, would have been 9/10 if it had wolves.

The art style on this Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition (by Ruben Toledo, 2010) reminds me a great deal of the art style of a girl I had a crush on when I was at school. So it gets extra points for bringing back happy memories. And it needs those points, because otherwise Dracula-as-Edward-Scissorhands is decidedly Not For Me. 3/10.

I mean it does the trick, doesn't it? Nothing to write home about, nothing to complain about. Except that this is a Collins Classroom Classics 2021 edition - for the A-level set text, no less. Can you imagine hoofing this back and forth from your house to your locker to your classroom, every day for a term or more? Can you imagine how revolting this off-white cover would eventually become from months-long exposure to school desks and teenagers' rucksacks? No thank you. 4/10.

It's BLUE!! Thank you, Puffin Clothbound Classics (2019), for finally providing an end to the monotony of red and red-tinted Dracula covers. There are a lot of covers that follow the castle-and-bats motif, and I haven't included most of them to keep this from getting samey. But imagine having the strength and courage to say no to the endless tyranny of red and make it blue. BlueBLUEblueblueblue. I feel refreshed, I feel restored. 20/10.

#dracula daily #dracula #2001 still counts as modern right? #right??

[best-childhood-book]

#best childhood book #poll #preliminary round #middle school #rain reign #the books of beginning #tillerman cycle #dark hills divide #the incorrigible children of ashton place #the wolves of willoughby Chase #leven thumps #greenglass house

[st-clements-steps]

Thank you @rainhalydia ♥️♥️♥️s and more ♥️♥️♥️s

3 ships you like: only 3?? Rhaenicent, I will continue shouting at people who have never watched HoTD about them, Jamie x Roy x Keeley, they’re just so sexy together, Barty x Bellatrix, they need advocacy, so much potential, so few stories

First ship ever: Hal x Hotspur in the kids Shakespeare version of Henry IV part 1, the rivalry, Hal, the less proficient swordsman, the less physically ferocious, killing Hotspur and then cradling him completing his dying sentence:

O, I could prophesy,/But that the earthy and cold hand of death/Lies on my tongue: no, Percy, thou art dust:And food for--

For worms, brave Percy: fare thee well, great heart!

I could not have articulated any of the above at 8 or 9 but fuck, I knew I was crying heart eyes on the floor.

Last song you heard: I’m not sure but Florida by Taylor and Florence is stuck in my head right now.

Favourite childhood book: I was talking about the Wolves of Willoughby Chase and shipping Bonnie, Sylvia and Simon the other night, so let’s go that.

Currently reading: Femina, a New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez (very slowly). The Sybill Trelawney fics I didn’t write in Marauders Sapphic Spring Fest 2024

Currently watching: This Town, early 80s UK, politics and class and race and Catholicism, Michelle Dockery (Downton’s Lady Mary) with messy hair and sad eyes, boys with bad dads with violence they don’t want embedded in their souls and poetry they don’t know what to do with on the tips of their tongues.

Currently consuming: like Lydia I’m not sure what this means, but I did buy some new knickers yesterday.

Currently craving: someone who’s happy for me to trace the contours of their back whilst I fail to sleep.

Tagging @luna13e-blog @selkiewife @attonitos-gloria @thistle-and-thorn @owlsinathens @thistlecatfics if you want and anyone who wants to please do and blame me.

#tag game #♥️♥️♥️s to all

[cozy4countrycottages]

Jeake's House,the home of American poet Conrad Aiken,and the childhood home of his daughter,English novelist Joan Aiken,author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Jeake's House,mermiad Strete,Rye,East Sussex,TN31 7ET. Currently a Bed & Breakfast Hotel.

#Conrad Aiken #Joan Aiken #Jeake's House #Samuel Jeake's #Rye #East Sussex #England #Literary Residence

[undetectorist]

hi! 😊 for the end-of-year book asks -- 2, 3, 17 por favor

omg i totally forgot that i queued that, thank you for asking my love!

2. did you reread anything? what?

omg, DID i. back when i was incredibly depressed in march/april, i found it really difficult to read anything new, partly because i wanted to be comforted and soothed, and partly because i was in a state of mind where i couldn't summon up new opinions on things. i wanted to read books where i knew how i'd feel at the end of them. and then i ended up rereading lots more as the year went on. anyway here's my reread list:

persuasion by jane austen

less by andrew sean greer

watership down by richard adams

the lord of the rings by j. r. r. tolkien

the earthsea quartet by ursula k. le guin

our mutual friend by charles dickens

a people's green new deal by max ajl

home by marilynne robinson

the wolves of willoughby chase by joan aiken

i hotel by karen tei yamashita

red white and royal blue by casey mcquiston

emma by jane austen

a room with a view by e. m. forster

the topeka school by ben lerner

gideon the ninth, harrow the ninth and nona the ninth by tamsyn muir

good omens by terry pratchett & neil gaiman

have his carcase by dorothy l. sayers

the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by douglas adams

confabulations by john berger

piranesi by susanna clarke

the left hand of darkness by ursula k. le guin

whew.

3. what were your top five books of the year?

cloudstreet by tim winton

decolonial marxism by walter rodney

nothing to see here by kevin wilson

tom lake by ann patchett

in the woods by tana french

17. did any books surprise you with how good they were?

YES, nothing to see here knocked me out with how incredible it was and how much i needed to read it at the time. was also very much taken with beyond black by hilary mantel, which isn't necessarily a surprise but i was nervous to try her non-historical fiction books because i love her historical fiction so much!

#thank you lovely!!!!!!!!!! #asks

[deweydecimalchickens]

When I was a kid I was really freaked out by my English teacher's ears because she wore dangly heavy earrings that had torn almost all the way through but not quite. Cannot remember the plot of the Wolves of Willoughby Chase. CLEARLY remember staring in horrified fascination convinced that last bit was gonna give up any minute.

29 years later I have solved this problem by the PERFECTLY NORMAL method of, basically, riveting my ears.

#If you make the holes bigger then the holes won't get bigger #This makes PERFECT SENSE shut up #Ear piercings #there i fixed it #Pressure is force over surface area #See I paid attention in physics #Physics lady hadn't messed up her ears #Despite vastly increased opportunity for workplace accidents