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An Interview with Bonny Becker

For my thirty-second Dream Gardens kid lit podcast, I interviewed author Bonny Becker about her favorite middle grade novel,  Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones.

First published in 1986 by Greenwillow Books, the novel tells the story of Sophie, who as the eldest sister of three doesn’t expect much out of life. But when she is cursed by a witch, her transformation into an old woman changes her in more ways than one.  With nowhere else to turn, she flees to the moving castle of the notorious wizard Howl to try to get her spell lifted by a fire demon without Howl finding out. Howl, though, does not turn to be quite the monster she expected.  As a matter of fact, no one is quite who they are pretending to be, including Sophie. Part fantasy and part fairy tale, with a lot of humor, whimsy and just a touch of romance thrown in, Howl’s Moving Castle is a story about deception and magic and finding yourself in the most unexpected of ways.

Bonny Becker is author of the Mouse and Bear picture books, such as A Christmas for Bear  and A Visitor for Bear, as well as the picture book  Cloud Country and the middle grade novels The Magical Ms. Plum and Holbrook: A lizard’s tale.  She also contributes to the blog Books Around the Table. You can find Bonny’s website at bonnybecker.com and the blog she writes for at booksaroundthetable.wordpress.com.

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