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Library CD (In Stock)
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3 Formats: CD
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3 Formats: Library CD
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3 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9781664404380
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ISBN: 9781664512214
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ISBN: 9781664659186
Runtime: | 1.20 Hours |
Category: | Fiction |
Audience: | Children (8–12) |
Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
An icon in the children's fantasy genre, Diana Wynne Jones garnered admiration and countless awards over the years for her dazzling works. In Earwig and the Witch, listeners meet Earwig, who is not your typical orphan by any stretch. Unlike most, she loves it at St. Morwald's Home for Children, where she knows everyone and usually gets her way. So when Earwig gets adopted by a strange woman named Bella Yaga, she wants no part of it-especially after she finds out Bella is an evil witch. Now Earwig will have to use all of her considerable wit and charm (and the help of a talking cat) to get out of this mess and back home safely.Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Featuring delightfully odd characters and eccentric magic, this all too
brief tale is a fine introduction to the late author’s more complex YA
novels.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Charlotte Parry reads Diana Wynne Jones’s story in a
delightful English accent and provides expressive character voices. She
brings Earwig to life with a sassy voice, while making the witch sound
grouchy and irritated.” —Library Journal
“Written for a younger audience than most of the
magical novels by the late Jones, this early chapter book offers an
amusing story in which it takes hard work as well as magic and
cleverness to bring about a happy ending.” —Booklist
“There’s just the right level of grotesquerie and scariness (worms
that are "blue and purple and very wriggly") in this utterly charming
chapter book. Earwig, as a spunky as any Jones heroine, keeps young and old readers chuckling through sadness at an era's end.” —Kirkus Reviews
Details
Details
Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD |
Category: | Fiction |
Runtime: | 1.20 |
Audience: | Children (8–12) |
Language: | English |
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