Bücher von Joan Aiken

Als ihre Eltern eine lange Seereise antreten, bleibt Bonnie gemeinsam mit ihrer Cousine Sylvia auf Willoughby Chase zurück. Es ist der härteste Winter seit Jahren, Schneestürme toben, nachts heulen die Wölfe, aber im Schloss fühlen sich die Mädchen geborgen. Miss Slighcarp, eine entfernte Verwandte, soll auf die beiden aufpassen, doch die hat nichts anderes im Sinn, als das Schloss und all seine Reichtümer an sich zu reißen. Sie entlässt die Dienerschaft, verkauft die Möbel, trägt sogar die Kleider von Bonnies Mutter. Und es kommt noch schlimmer: Eines Tages eröffnet sie Bonnie, ihre Eltern seien bei einem Schiffsunglück ums Leben gekommen, und schickt beide Mädchen in ein Waisenhaus. Die Zustände dort sind fürchterlich. Nicht einmal genug zu essen gibt es. Bonnie und Sylvia gelingt die Flucht. Gemeinsam mit dem Gänsehirten Simon machen sie sich auf den Weg nach London zu Sylvias Tante Jane. Werden sie je wieder nach Willoughby Chase zurückkehren können?

Now, back in print, the engaging and suspenseful British fantasy by one of England's most imaginative storytellers. Lucas Bell is lonely and miserable at Midnight Court, a vast, brooding house owned by his intolerable guardian, Sir Randolph Grimsby. When a mysterious carriage brings a visitor to the house, Lucas hopes he's found a friend at last. But the newcomer, Anna Marie, is unfriendly and spoiled-and French. Just when Lucas thinks things can't get any worse, disastrous circumstances force him and Anna Marie, parentless and penniless, into the dark and unfriendly streets of Blastburn.

In addressing "the way to write for children," Joan Aiken starts at the beginning. Is writing a children's book as simple as it looks? Do you want to write for children or about them? Do you want to write a picture book for young children, a book for new readers, or a chapter book for preteens? Why is Beatrix Potter so beloved? E. Nesbit? A. A. Milne? Maurice Sendak?After more than fifteen years as a writing shelf classic, The Way to Write for Children has been completely revised and updated. From analysis of what makes the best-loved children's books so successful, to where to look for inspiration, to practical advice on how to structure a plot, Aiken delivers an extremely useful book for anyone who's ever considered writing a children's book.

Prize winning WOLVES CHRONICLES PREQUEL reissued in A Puffin Book - All 12 Wolves books now in print for the first time ever.In THE WHISPERING MOUNTAIN by Joan Aiken, the small town of Pennygaff, the legendary Harp of Teirtu is found - and lost again. For young Owen Hughes and his friend Arabis, it is the start of a hair-raising race to save the harp from sinister Lord Malyn. As they struggle to keep it out of his hands, they are plunged into a wild adventure involving murder, kidnapping, underground worlds, savage beasts, floods, avalanche, the mysterious children of the Pit - and above all, a man who will stop at nothing to get the harp back again.Winner of the 1969 Guardian Fiction Award.

Clytie Churchill's life has been guided by love and death, but there's a mystery from her past that she is forced to revisit before she can move on in this satisfying romantic suspense novel from award winning author Joan Aiken.

An ingenious continuation of one of Jane Austen's intriguing unfinished novels, The Watsons.