Howl's Moving Castle (novel)
1986 fantasy book by Diana Wynne Jones / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Howl's Moving Castle is a fantasy novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones, first published in 1986 by Greenwillow Books of New York. It was a runner-up for the annual Boston Globe–Horn Book Award,[3] and won the Phoenix Award twenty years later.[4] It was adapted into an animated film of the same name in 2004, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
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Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
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Cover artist | Joseph A. Smith (artist) |
Language | English |
Series | Howl's Castle[1] |
Genre | Children's fantasy novel |
Publisher | Greenwillow Books (US), Methuen (November 1986) |
Publication date | April 1986 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 212 pp (first edition) |
ISBN | 0-688-06233-4 |
OCLC | 12582402 |
LC Class | PZ7.J684 Hp 1986[2] |
Followed by | Castle in the Air |
Howl's Moving Castle is the first novel in the series of books called the Howl Series. This series also includes Castle in the Air, published in 1990, and House of Many Ways, published in 2008. WorldCat reports that Howl's Moving Castle is the author's work most widely held in participating libraries, followed by its first sequel Castle in the Air.[5]
For the idea Jones "very much" thanked "a boy in a school I was visiting", whose name she had noted but lost and forgot. He had "asked me to write a book titled The Moving Castle".[6]