After braving a treacherous journey through snow-covered wastes, Sylvia joins her cousin Bonnie in the warmth and safety of Willoughby Chase. They narrowly avoid a gory lupine death, but with Bonnie's parents overseas and the evil governess, Miss Slighcarp, left in charge, they find their human predatorsmore dangerous.
This book is part of a book series called The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase .
There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Random House Children's Publishers UK .
Joan Aiken is one of the best loved authors of the twentieth century, and has written over a hundred books for young readers and adults, including "A Necklace of Raindrops," "The Winter Sleepwalker and Other Stories," and "The Youngest Miss Ward. "
This book contains the following stories:
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
It's 19th-century England during the reign of King James II, but it's not the England we know from the history books. This country is overrun with wolves that roam the forests, providing the perfect setting for a witty and dramatic story spanning the whole country, from the frozen North to the city of London, and peopled with all manner of evil governesses and ancient aunts.
Is
Dido's sister, Is, travels north to try and find her lost cousin. But instead of the promised Playland, she discovers an underground kingdom where children work as slaves in the worst conditions imaginable - under the rule of the sinister Gold Kingy. . .
