Diana Wynne Jones "is a prolific novelist of enormous range who can raise hairs on the back of the neck one minute, belly laughs the next," asserts Elaine Moss in the Times Literary Supplement. Jones ...
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Contemporary children's fantasy has its own conventions and standards, often unacknowledged but recognized by those who write or publish fantasy. Diana Wynne Jones has built her reputation on challeng...
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Critical Essay by Cathy S. Coyle
Desperately in need of money, Frank and Jess form a neighborhood revenge service [in Witch's Business, published in Britain as Wilkin's Tooth]. However, ...
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Critical Essay by Margery Fisher
The ogre downstairs will be wasted if it is not accorded the widest possible readership—not that young readers won't ap-Diana Wynne Jones 1934– Co...
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Critical Essay by Neil Philip
As the fantasy genre fastens its grip on children's writing its landscapes seem to be growing more shadowy and indistinct. The detailed, concrete worlds of Tolkien...
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Critical Essay by Neil Philip
[The Magicians of Caprona] is a sprightly, pleasant, ingenious book, but it is neither as strong nor as multi-layered as Charmed Life; the author seems here, as in her ot...
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Critical Essay by Mary M. Burns
Like Joan Aiken, [Diana Wynne Jones] has a remarkable talent for creating a time which never was yet which seems believably familiar. The fantasy [The Magicians of Capr...
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Critical Essay by Marcus Crouch
What a brilliant and talented writer this is! [In The Magicians of Caprona Diana Wynne Jones] breaks all the usual rules of fantasy with impunity, secure in her own vir...
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Critical Essay by Christopher Davis
["Witch's Business"] is typical of a kind of TV story style—two-dimensional, linear, endlessly this-happened-then-that-happened. Talk, e...
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Critical Essay by John Fuller
[Folk-magic] is tricky to set up. In The Ogre Downstairs … Diana Wynne Jones goes to town on something far more practical: a magic chemistry set. Caspar, Johnny an...
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Critical Essay by Margery Fisher
By now we can trust Diana Wynne Jones to sustain daylight magic with aplomb, humour and total logic. Like The Ogre downstairs, her new story, Eight days of Luke, is ba...
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Critical Essay by Lesley Croome
Diana Wynne Jones, who showed her talent for exploiting the tensions that exist between adults and children to create hilarious situations in The Ogre Downstairs, has n...
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Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland
Adroitly blended realism and fantasy, [The Ogre Downstairs] … uses the results of magic potions to further compatibility. Caspar, Gwinny, and Johnny detest the...
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Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones
