The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Wolves #1) (1999)
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Wolves #1) is a 1999 juvenile fiction book written by Joan Aiken.
In an England that never was, where a channel tunnel has let wolves pour in from Europe to prowl the winter countryside, cousins Bonnie and Sylvia are left in the care of the cold-eyed governess Miss Slighcarp. Joan Aiken opens her Wolves Chronicles with a Dickensian adventure for younger readers: a great house seized by a scheming guardian, a grim boarding school run by the awful Mrs. Brisket, and a loyal goose-boy named Simon who helps the girls fight back. Snowbound, gothic, and briskly told, with real menace beneath the storybook surface.
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What is The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Wolves #1) about?
In an England that never was, where a channel tunnel has let wolves pour in from Europe to prowl the winter countryside, cousins Bonnie and Sylvia are left in the care of the cold-eyed governess Miss Slighcarp. Joan Aiken opens her Wolves Chronicles with a Dickensian adventure for younger readers: a great house seized by a scheming guardian, a grim boarding school run by the awful Mrs. Brisket, and a loyal goose-boy named Simon who helps the girls fight back. Snowbound, gothic, and briskly told, with real menace beneath the storybook surface.
When was The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Wolves #1) published?
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Wolves #1) was published in 1999.
Who made The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Wolves #1)?
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Wolves #1) was written by Joan Aiken.
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The 1989 film of the same title adapts this book directly for the screen. Readers who love the scheming-guardian gothic should try A Series of Unfortunate Events, where orphaned children outwit a menacing relative in a not-quite-real past, the same blend of danger and dry wit Joan Aiken pours over her snowbound England.
Resourceful kids surviving without much help from grown-ups
Bonnie and Sylvia have only a loyal goose-boy and their own nerve once Miss Slighcarp takes over Willoughby Chase, the same scrappy self-reliance driving A Series of Unfortunate Events' Baudelaire orphans, Redwall's young mice defending their home, Brisingr's dragon rider standing against an empire, The Girl Who Drank the Moon's exiled witch-in-training, and Charlotte's Web's unlikely barnyard alliance to survive.
Ordinary kids who turn out to be hiding real magic
Bonnie and Sylvia are stuck under a governess's thumb with no one guessing what they're capable of, and that same gap between an ordinary-looking kid and their hidden power drives Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, If You Could See the Sun, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir and Sailor Moon.